August 20th: Today we took a trip to Lake Sevan, which is a huge lake here in Armenia. For this land-locked country, it is significant as a big body of water that gives the impression of being a sea and allows folks to go to the “seaside” to swim and do all the other things that people do at such places.

We went to a nearby water-park to try to relax, cool off and get a dose of skin cancer.

Aida and Toni at the water park.

DJ, Ruth and Kelsey do a left-handed toast to Russia.

Mamuka, Peace Corps driver, makes a new friend.

The monastery at Lake Sevan.

A door at the monastery.

Garrick at the end of the slide.

Tengo at the beginning of the slide.