Hey Look At My Mercedes!

Yesterday the girls had a performance for “Teacher’s Day” at school. Each grade/class did something to honor teachers. Some performed recited poetry, sang or danced. Kristen, Bridget and three of their friends did a dance routine to “The Pussycat Dolls”. It was cute.

While we were on our way home, we saw the most amazing thing. I am not endorsing this as a good thing. But it was certainly something to log in our blog. So we see just up ahead on the road heading towards us flashing lights and six Black Hummer H2s, followed by a Limo carrying the bride and groom, followed by four black Mercedes trucks (sorry Mercedes fans, I don’t know the appropriate model—they just look like the Tonka trucks I had when I was a kid), then what appeared to be at least 50 black and silver big Mercedes sedans. Now, keep in mind that the French President Jacques Chirak was in town with Charles Aznavour just last week. Their motorcade included about six cop cars, two Mercedes and a few more cops. In addition, keep in mind that I lived in Washington, DC for seven years and have seen many, many motorcades of many, many different very important people.

This was absolutely the most ridiculous thing we have seen in Armenia yet. Apparently it was the wedding party of either the wealthiest or almost the wealthiest guy in Armenia’s (owner of Multi-group) daughter. Our local friend Haroutun told us they were going to spend $4 million on this wedding. Go figure…

On the housing front, we started looking for apartments in anticipation of our upcoming move. Houry figured out that the apartment next door is to us is also a rental. She found the pictures online, spoke to the agent and we are waiting to confirm its availability. If it works out, it will be terrific. Literally the move would be three steps from the entrance to our apartment. The view is the same, the neighborhood, etc. The apartment is great because it is renovated and has two real bedrooms! Stay tuned for the housing adventures of the Abajians.

Final note, I have a bunch of photos to post, but need to have a high speed connection to do so. It may take a week or so. My boss was in town last week and things were crazy, so I am now posting this delayed report and will catch up, once again, soon.

As an additional update and piece of info, apparently the bride's family in the start of this post approached Valentino to design the wedding dress--they said "no" so they went with a $400,000 Christian Dior dress...