Wow, what a week! Day after day of solid meetings, sometimes at night too! And next week I won't even be in the office practically, since I will be on a trip to Karabakh and Vayots Dzor (for work). I love going to Karabakh, but three days is not going to be all that pleasant. So much driving, so little time spent there. Well I haven't gone this year, so it will be nice, just to see the scenery. I will hopefully get a chance to log from Karabakh too.

Today is going to be great, we got special permission from a Ministry to go into the border guard zone and visit one or two churches on the Arax river. I have only seen one source of information on the church, since it is so hard to get to, and the villagers who live nearby have told me they had no idea what I was talking about when I asked twice before, uncertain of exactly where it lay. I wonder if they really didn't know because they too were restricted in movement, or if they were just used to denying knowing anything :-) I must say the ministry made getting the permission very easy on us, especially since we got them our information rather last minute. Jack is coming along too, with a zillion cameras, so hopefully this church makes it into his next book (he has two under his belt already). My dad will be leaving soon, but he will accompany us on this trip as well. It is pretty hard to get him out of Yerevan, so this will be interesting.

Yesterday I had lunch with Edele Hovnanian, who has some excellent plans up her sleeves. I can't wait till they are official and I can announce them. (Sorry we always tease you all with tidbits like that!)