Happy Canada Day! Canadian Ambassador, Philippe Beaulne invited us to a Canada Day reception at the Hilton Hotel. We met other Canadians who are working here or have business interests in Romania. We spoke to ambassadors from Japan, Philippines, Indonesa and Nigeria - all charming and interested in the work we are doing. It was a beautiful outdoor reception with red and white balloons and massive bouquets of red roses and white lilies. Why didn't I get pictures of those???
This jolly threesome are (L) President of the Romanian Senate (Geoana Mircea), Canadian Ambassador, Philippe Beaulne, and President of Romanian Parliament (we didn't catch his name). Fortunately, their speeches were much better than their expressions during the playing of our national anthems. Randy and Vicky were the only ones singing O Canada, and we didn't care. We sang out heartily!
On the 4th of July we joined the young missionaries for a barbecue and a game of water balloon volleyball. The fellow poised under the balloon in the dark shirt is from Norway - the only other non-American missionary besides us in Bucharest right now.
Some had better technique than others...
These two wore their national pride enthusiastically - if a tad weird.
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