venice, anyone?

as we all know, saturdays are the day of the week that we don't go to section 2 or the hospital. and instead we have a break from that, and get to explore iași. and have fun adventures.
let's start with last saturday, shall we?
a week ago, we started our day by going swimming! why it took us until the middle/end of july to go find the pool, we're not really sure. i guess you could say we've been a little preoccupied discovering all the other cool things about iași. welp, a couple weeks ago was an insanely hot one, so we just soaked up the pool time. refreshing? you bet. it might have involved seeing a whole lot more adult flesh than we've seen in a long time. (let's be real. we see naked babies all the time. bahaha.) buuut we just averted our sweet and tender eyes and soaked it up while laying in the sand. (yep. SAND!) and it may or may not have been my first sunburn of the summer. how sad is it that it took until the middle of july to get the first one? oh well. my tan skin isn't complaining. :)

i've never seen so many speedos in my life.
nor have i ever seen two men play backgammon in speedos.
popular pool game, i suppose? ha.

after swimming last week, we headed to the branch and then packed into taxis to go to veniția! (venice!) if only we meant the real venice in italy. but it wasn't half bad. it was an adorable little tucked away lake. on a day that turned overcast after we left the pool/soon after arriving at venice. the lake thing was bad news for mosquito bites. but an incredible success as far as a branch picnic on a saturday afternoon in july. a whole bunch of people showed up/met us there. and we had a ball playing games and eating sandwiches & watermelon. you know, the usual picnic sort of things to do. ending with realizing how sunburned we were. and going home to a nice quiet night, in my apartment, at least. successful lake trip? check.

behold: veniția in all her glory!

arrivals!

elder wirthlin & elder cox.
hauling water balloons. :)

we might have had an egg toss. and it might have broken on me. same story with breezy's egg. ha.
don't mind my creative hair. andrada said she loved it. haaahahaha. good thing she was mocking me.

member that time fratele popovici played backgammon in swim trunks?

elder wirthlin (blue shorts) has a thing for whipped cream and any game that involves its use.

ilie and michael got creamed.

member that time breezy got 'whipped'? she does. :) 

member when rossles got attacked by whipped cream too? ahahahahahaha.

group photo with sora holman.

group photo with amanda.

elder cox and mihai got egged. and water-ballooned. at long last.

frog catching!

don't worry. no missionaries were harmed in the making of this photo. nor did any fall/get pushed into the water. 

backgammon, yet again.

what a pretty little place, wouldn't you say?