May 26, 2012
When we were going to Lori, we stopped at the Armenian alphabet. Each person stood at their letter and took a picture. It was so cool to see the alphabet in 3D. We took a class picture on the S,V because of our school name. On the way we also saw three mountains, Ararat, Arakadz and Ara’s Mountain. It was a beautiful and bright day out. I wish it was like this when we went to Khor Virab. They were really pretty!
We also went to a market to get some food. We got the world’s best bread! It was so good, it was speechless. They made it fresh from the tonier. Under the bus we saw a cat. We didn’t want to touch it, but we did give it food. We gave it some bread. When we gave a piece of sausage and the cat swallowed it down in one bite. After a little we named it Lavash cause all we gave it was lavash.
When we got to Lori. Our first stop was Hovanes Toumanian house/museum. His house was very interesting because I love seeing ancient stuff. At first Toumanian’s had one room then they built four more rooms. When we were about to leave Sam saw a gift shop where we could dress up as Toumanian’s story characters. It was really fun! Narek and Hovanes were on a horse and Mark had a sheep it was really cute.
Haghbad was very cool. Haghbad in English means victory wall. The first one was built 976. The second was built in 1061. The third was built in 1063. There was a cross stone which was called st. amenaprgich. It was made of an orange rock. Today was the last bell (last day of school) of the Haghtbab School, so everybody gathered at the church.
Last of all we went to Sanahin. Sanahin means one is older than the other. It had so many cross stones. It was really pretty and big. They had so many grave stones on the floor and they had different designs .
For dinner we went to a very good restaurant in a hotel. The food was really good.
By Mary Boyajian and Natalie Gebeyan