Today we joined our regional Armenian community for its annual summer picnic. It was quite a hot day which may have affected the turn-out, but we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves nonetheless.
The picnic started with the Armenian tradition of Blessing of Grapes. It was great to learn a little about the Armenian Church and its practices by observing the ceremony.
Meanwhile, there was some delicious Armenian barbecue cooking. Let's just say Craig totally overate.
Rex had so much fun running around in the wide open space and was quite interested in his birth country's flag.
Emilia tried very hard to play and interact with other children her age, but one of the little girls just couldn't understand why Emilia kept calling a Cinderella doll Anna (as in Frozen).
Here is our little prince in all his glory, wearing a shirt that says, "I am Armenian."
I hope that next year other local adoptive families with Armenian children will join us for this picnic because it's a wonderful cultural experience in a community that welcomed our family, and in particular Rex, very warmly after understanding his story.
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