Novruz 2008 in Mingechavir Part 2

The following day was fairly uneventful. Mike had meetings and I was revising my thesis proposal. In the evening we were invited to Elvin' s aunt's house for another Novruz dinner. Elvin is a student at the Teachers Institute and he works with the Ming PCVs quite a lot. He is very excited about anything American and was very excited to have us all come to his house for dinner. Dinner was more of the same, Dolma, Plov, Baklava. We had an egg challenge. Afterwards we all took a stroll outside since all of the apartment blocks were having bonfires that night. We stopped at some embers and jumped over them, wishing our last years' troubles away. There were some fireworks, too. We wandered in on Carolyn's counterpart's party and we danced around with them for a while and watched small children play with sparklers. It was really fun until the kids started throwing fireworks at us. Then we made for home.