Ladies Christmas Party

Oops, This is out of order. Monday, December 1st was Romania Day. Since

everyone was off school and work we took the opportunity to have a ladies

Christmas party. This was kind of a last minute plan and was not very well

organized, but never-the-less we had a great time. We revisited our

childhoods a little and cut out snowflakes. We also did other crafts, played

games, ate (of course), sang, and had a white elephant gift exchange. It was

a good time to spend time with our sisters, and get to know one another a

little better.

Lock- in @ Pitesti

Friday, December 5th, six of us took the bus to Pitesti for a lock-in. We were joined also by a group from Bucharest. We had a great time with devotionals, food, and games. We also took a walk at 3 AM in Pitesti's beautiful square. I wish I had some more pictures but the four batteries we bought lasted only long enough to get about 6 pictures. I will have to get some pictures from some others and hope for a better camera for Christmas. Anyway, all who attended were so encouraged that it was decided to have a lock-in here in the spring. The congregation is eager

to start planning for it.

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!

Everywhere we look it is begining to look like Christmas. There is a huge Christmas tree in the main square with an ice skating rink and shopping. Over the weekend we attended a Christmas concert in the square and were introduced to Romanian Christmas carols.

Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We were supposed to give a presentation to some military English students about the holiday, but we later found out that we would need military clearance. So we spent a quiet Thanksgiving with the girls doing a play for us and enough food to feed an army. I guess I am too used to fixing Thanksgiving for a large crowd. Even though I scaled back the recipes and didn't fix as many types of dishes we still had tons of food. We had saved pecans that we brought with us to make a delicious pecan pie. It did not last long.

First Snow

November 22 we had our first snow. Hannah and Elizabeth had a great time playing and building a snowman, while the rest of us stayed where it was warmer.