In the middle of all the hecticity of packing up our apartment, we flew off for a wedding in Tbilisi, Georgia. Our Polish friends were hosting a huge party for the wedding of Marcin and Ania. This photo shows Judy and Kasia(dressed in a Polish peasant costume) in the hotel lobby. The weekend was spectacular, although tiring. The airplanes arrive in Tbilisi Airport between 3 and 4 in the morning, so we had a 5 hour wait in Munich Airport. In the airport, Marcin was waiting with two taxi vans for the 10 Polish friends and little old us. Kasia and Ania were not there to meet us because they were recovering from an evening of serious drinking and fun. The hotel was in the old Jewish quarter of Tbilisi and up a steep hill. We got to bed at about 5 and slept until 10 the next morning. Breakfast was Turkish coffee, fresh eggs scrambled, dark bread and white cheese. On the first day, we had a tour of two of the oldest churches in European Christendom, because Georgia was the first country to accept Christianity. One of the churches has a crypt where the robe of Jesus is secured. The synagogue in Tbilisi is big and has three stories, each with its own synagogue and own rabbi and 3 congregations. Tbilisi is a friendly, warm town with a combination of old Soviet buildings and roads and trucks with a Mediterranean street life. Lots of cafes with strollers being invited to join in the fun. On the day of the wedding, the whole group of almost 100 guests were bussed to the home of the Polish Ambassador was our host for the official wedding ceremony. Then, champagne in the garden and finally off to the wedding party at a HUGE Georgian restaurant. The party lasted until 1 on the following morning. At midnight they announced that we were celebrating our 46th wedding anniversary. And the party went on. We returned to Amsterdam after leaving at 5 AM in Tbilisi and home at noon. The very next day, the movers arrived to pack us up for the trip to America. It was a tiring but very rewarding interlude.
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