Armenian Picnic

On Sunday we went to visit cousin Haig in the Armenian Nursing Home in Jamaica Plain for their annual picnic. Armenians love picnics and I remember as a child going to Waverly Oaks in Belmont where lots (hundreds?) of Armenians would gather to eat shish kebab and pilaf. My mother tells me that they used to have giant picnics with thousands of people probably up to the 70s. Anyway, this was kind of a modified picnic, being at a nursing home. They has some tents set up in the parking lot and volunteers did the cooking for the residents and visiting families.

Best of all, there was a group of Armenian musicians playing traditional music. As soon as they started playing, Liam's face lit up and he watched in awe. He especially loved the dumbeg (drum) player who played just for him, made duck noises in his microphone and during a break let Liam play his dumbeg. Later a man got up and did some Armenian dancing and Grandma and Liam joined him. Luke hung out in the stroller and seemed to take it all in. It was a fun, fun day.