Celebrations, Romanian style!

I had the most unique 4^th of July celebration this year than I have ever before. Not being in the country mixes it up a bit, however, it appeared to be common knowledge that it was some some kind of American holiday because several people wore their American flag shirts around. 

Notice Teo's American shirt :)

Festivities started when a common grocery store had “American week” and sold all sorts of American food (i.e. Brownies, Marshmallows, onion rings, fries, hamburgers, BBQ sauce, ice cream, pancake mix, and much more unhealthy American food).

We were so excited and left with full bags of this so called “authentic” food. It was so funny to see what is considered American food and see all the red/white/blue labels.

The highlight, however, was finding my favorite cereal ever! Rice Krispies followed me all the way to Romania and guess what, folks, they snap, crackle, AND pop! True bliss!

On the Forth of July, we celebrated by going to a restaurant called LITTLE TEXAS! When I thought it couldn’t get more exciting after finding my cereal, there is an entire restaurant based on my home state! There was even a flag! It really was so much fun and a worthy way to spend the Forth. The 4 sets of missionaries in the area apparently had the same idea, so we saw them there also. 

Just feels like home!

The Americans take over!!

All any true American does, we dressed up for the holiday and strutted our red, white and blue!

Roomie pic!

If we hadn’t had enough celebration this week, we had two birthdays this week! Caroline’s Birthday was Saturday and Rachel’s was Sunday! We love excuses to do fun things out of the norm and birthdays are the perfect time! On Saturday to celebrate Caroline’s fading youth and 20^th birthday, we went to a pool in Iasi. There were 4 diving platforms (The tallest, 30f ft) and two huge pools! It was really fun even though it got interrupted by a huge rainstorm. Just picture 11 American girls with towels on their heads shoveling into taxis.. that was us! 

Wet little Romanian rats

Birthday girl wearing her birthday crown!

Luckily, it cleared up and we had a little cookout American style with the Hamburgers we bought. Finally, we ended the day with a Poetry Slam, as requested for her Birthday by Caroline. For those not familiar with Poetry Slams, you write a poem (preferably over dramatic and fun) and go together to a place to have a recitation where each poem is followed by snaps. It’s only for the most artsy of us and I think we pulled it off pretty good. Lots of fun! So far, it looks like we’ve figured out how to party in Romania!

Hipster poses?

 Just a bonus picture we took. Right before the picture took, one of the girls yelled out "Do smies (Smile-eyes where you can't smile with your mouth), so this was the group and missionaries' attempt to master the pose!!