Rain...

Again, some random things to share, but first I'd like to say it is STILL raining. I don't remember the last time I've experienced this much rain. My friend was up in Lori the last couple of days and it was snowing, which apparently it did in the higher elevations of Yerevan as well. Today we were on a hike in Khosrov Reserve, it was a LOOOOONG hike, and very very wet and muddy. The monastery at the end of the hike though, was quite cool - so I'm not going to complain too much, as exhausted and soggy as I am. I just got back, it was a 12 hr day - at least half of it was constant hiking, with a lot of elevation involved. I realize there hasn't been a picture on this page for a while (maybe that will change with the arrival of Arsineh), so here is a picture of Aghjots Vank (aka Surp Stepanos) - the monastery at the end of our hike...

On a totally different note, it has become popular in the past couple of years for advertisers to tape cards to your front door. Usually taxi companies, sometimes internet, a restaurant, or something else. Well these bugged me, and I always took them off, but a week ago decided I'd just let them all collect on my door. What difference does it make to me? An interesting thing happened. First one taxi service was up, then an internet company... a good start to a door covered in these things... but then I noticed that the internet company card had changed. When a competitor came to put up theirs, they saw the old one and took it down before adding theirs. This cracked me up, and I realized the number of cards would be limited to just a few if this kept up. Now I came home and saw both cards are gone. A helpful neighbor who didn't want it to look like I'm not around I assume - or thought it was ugly.

Tomorrow is May Day (Labor Day) in Armenia and in this part of the world in general, so to all the workers of the world... good job! :-)