"How do you say...?"

-Everyone, in a shuffle of languages at our first party, accidentally themed as a comedy of errors

Whelp, when Plan A fails, move to Plan B. When Plan B fails, move to Plan C. When Plan C fails...praise Jesus anyway.

And that's exactly what we did. Yesterday's first party started out smoothly--Jess and Parker lead the group (what a great turn out we had!) in charades and another group game as people were arriving while I worked on preparing PB&J sandwiches and some other "American" snacks.

After the games and food is when we ran into trouble--due to a seemingly endless strand of miscommunication, we didn't actually have a DVD player at the church building with which to watch Jurassic Park as we had planned and many of our readers were looking forward to. Plan A? Failed. Plan B: Margrit drives Maria to get DVD player. Great! and what great leadership and teamwork from our readers to help the party move along. While we waited, what better way to spend time then to sing some worship songs in English and Romanian?

When Maria and Margrit returned, Plan B was soon defeated by the old church television that couldn't be hooked up to the DVD player. Okay, no big deal, there's a TV in the church house next door...which also failed to meet our needs. Never fear! We have a laptop! ...hopefully 20 people can figure out a way to sit so everyone can see....and be quiet enough to hear...

Oh! Parker and I can taxi back to the apartment to grab some larger speakers for the computer so hopefully more people can hear. Good thing we did; Jessica had left her cell phone in the taxi on the way to the church earlier. Whoops. Parker and I couldn't find the speakers after all (I mean really, what were you expecting?), so Parker hastily grabbed our apartment TV to bring--which would've been awesome, if he or I had grabbed the remote control to change the input so the TV would recognize the DVD player once hooked up. Awesome...gold stars for us in the COMPLETE FAIL department! Hahaha, so, if you're keeping track, 1 hour, 15 minutes, 3 TVs, 2 worship songs in 2 different languages, and a DVD player later, we watched the movie on a Mac. Guess what. That should have been Plan A.

All in all, despite the circus, everyone seemed to have a good time and our readers today have all told us they had a great time last night. Yay!

After the party was over and the church building was put back together (Maria, Rodica, and Adrianna insisted on cleaning despite our efforts to let them relax while we cleaned), Adrianna, Vlad, Pono, Thomas, Levi, Parker, Jess, and I went out for desert in the center of town.

The group! (Well, minus me--I had to take the picture. Haha) 

Jess, Parker, and Thomas. 

Hmm. Make what you will of this. 

Adrianna, Pono, Levi, Vlad, Nikki

The Lord has showered us with blessings! And they just keep flowing--this morning, Rodica came to the apartment and taught Parker and I how to make clătite (crepes). Yummmmmm

God Bless!
Nikki, Jessica, & Parker 
Colossians 4:2-6