Long Weekend

I had a four day long weekend for thanksgiving. Thursday - Thanksgiving - was my second opportunity to introduce Armen's relatives to the thanksgiving meal. I spent ALL day cooking for ten people... note to other incompetent cookers - do not make a meal for more than 4 people on your first try. In any case - I had a semi-successful meal including a turkey, stuffing, mashed pototoes, pumpkin soup, gravy, cranberry sauce, and three different pies. I must say I was surprised by my Armenian family's dislike of the cranberry sauce - it's my favorite part!

I'm off to the US in less than a month and Armen and I are anxiously waiting to move into our new apartment... yes, it's STILL not done! We did check it out yesterday and it is completely painted - we are just waiting for the floors, kitchen, and bathrooms to be finished. I hope we can move in before we leave!

With that being said we are still looking for a dog sitter for the two weeks we'll be gone. Our regular dog keeper can't keep Rocky (he ate one too many pair of slippers last time apparently) and now we might have to put him in the doggy jail (as they call it here). If anyone has good dog keeper contacts, let me know.

And most importantly today is the constitutional referendum. Here is a good site that talks about the amendments... http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/069E36D4-46E4-40BD-B2FE-5BA74230A09E.html.