Jim Farrell Has Arrived in Azerbaijan!

Some (me) thought it wasn't going to be possible, but amazingly enough, I am pleased to report my dad's safe arrival in Azerbaijan!  After his visa failed to come in time for his initial flight, and then again failed to come on Monday, I have to admit that I lost all hope of it arriving in time for his Tuesday flight.  I knew that we had given the embassy like 6 weeks to get the visa, which should have been more than enough, but it just didn't seem possible.  But lo and behold, it made it Tuesday afternoon!

His plane got in a little ahead of schedule last night and I braved the all-male airport (as in there were only males there and everyone was staring at me and it was really uncomfortable, not as in I was not allowed there as a female) to get him.  Then today I took him to see the rock carvings at Qobustan and the mud volcanoes outside of Baku before we went to visit with my host family from training.  And now we are back at the hotel resting up (and by that I mean he is resting up, snoring away while I write this) before our long ride up to Tovuz in the morning!! Get ready Qədirli, here he comes!!

At the mud volcanoes