The majority of volunteers from my training group headed down to Tbilisi for a weekend of fun and adventure…and for Rob and Ashley’s Vegas-style, Georgian wedding. Rob and Ashley are two teachers from my group who are in a relationship back home in the states, and they decided to get married here so that they could live together on socially acceptable terms. Their wedding was nothing short of an adventure. There were about 25 people who came to the ceremony, which was held in a chapel/courthouse of sorts. The whole thing was a mini version (30ish minutes long) of an actual wedding with all the pizzazz and hilarity of a Vegas wedding: pictures, music, 1st dance, toasts, champagne, confetti, bouquet toss, cheesy music, the whole shebang.
We spent most of our weekend doing wedding related things; we did find time for some sightseeing and debacles around the city. My friend Raughley, who is living in Tbilisi, took a group of us to a Turkish bath for a scrub down and massage. These baths are a very unique experience…We rented a room for the boys and a separate one for the girls. The employees tried to put us all in a room together, and in hindsight that would have been a veryyyyy awkward experience (just keep reading) hahah Each room was covered in bathroom tiles and had a hot tub, massage table, lounge area, and showers. You get completely naked, and depending our your gender, an old Turkish man or woman (who is also completely nudey) comes in a gives you a DEEP scrub down and intense massage. The scrub is ridiculous…I felt like a 7 year old who had just wrongly played in the mud in my Sunday dress clothes, and now my grandma was angrily scrubbing me down. I won’t go into too much detail, but I will say that body parts were everywhere and we laughed a TON.
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