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The day started with Marina taking me to this restaurant. |
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We were greeted by Irina Ford, Katya, & Sasha K. with
balloons, sparklers and singing Happy Birthday in
Russian. |  |
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A picture of all of us together. |
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Doesn't our food look great?
Mine was poached pear with a chocolate sauce on a crepe. |  |
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The girls gave me several nice presents! |  |
| Irina F. and I rushed off after our
brunch to get to our Friday prayer meeting on time. Which
had been moved to 2:30 instead of 3 and was at Craig's instead
of the church where we meet for our club meetings. We were
greeted by the guys on the team. They had balloons,
streamers, birthday cake and pizza. :-) |  |
| Craig used one of his Pillsbury
cake mixes (a very precious commodity in Russia since they are
$5 a box to buy them here) and made a yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
Norreen Dabman helped him whip up the frosting. |  |
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We had a fun time eating pizza and cake. |  |
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After our club meeting, a bunch of friends came over to
the apartment to help celebrate some more. There
were two more cakes and lots to eat! |  |
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Marina put out lots of candles. These spell my
name of course. ;-) |  |
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Katya and Marina G. |  |
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More candles to blow out! |  |
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