Lake Bazeleti

Weekend of November 29th

This past weekend we had a conference at Lake Bazeleti about an hour north of Tbilisi. The hotel was great as it had just been remodeled. There were several great things about this hotel 1) HEAT 2) TERRYCLOTH BATH ROBES 3) LOTS OF HOT WATER. One doesn’t realize how much they might miss taking a hot shower and being able to put on a bath rob after they get done and not freezing to death. The showers were definitely a great indulgence to this conference. In America I never used the term “bathing” here I use it all the time. There is a difference between bathing and showering. Showering your whole body gets wet and bathing uses only a wash cloth of sorts (wet wipes) and dunking your head under the faucet to wash your hair. You do what you have to do sometimes. Needless to say I really do miss being able to take hot showers and continuing to be warm when I step out of the shower. I did say that I would probably miss my hot showers before I left. Now they are a luxury.

Really the purpose of this conference was to talk about safety and security and discuss the different committees that PC has. Friday we spent the entire day discussing safety and security and getting briefed about the current political situation in Georgia. Saturday we discussed the different committees that PC has and other helpful tidbits. But the other main highlight of Saturday was having Turkey dinner with everybody. We spent the afternoon making all the traditional dishes and Saturday night feasting. It was a great time. Not quiet the same as my mom’s but it will do the trick for now.

Oh, I also learned how to knit this weekend. I needed something else to do in the winter instead of reading all the time. Now I can add knitting to my list of things to do next to my heater! Have no fear I have started sewing clothes on the sewing machine and I really don’t see that happening anytime. The only sewing machine I saw was a hand crank sewing machine and well that won’t work for me since I couldn’t even sew a straight line when I took home economics in high school.