Celebrating our friends Ivan and Larissa

We celebrated the new status of our Siberian friends in grand style at the home of the Hostess with the Mostest Susan W. She really knows how to throw a party!

                                                      I gave Larissa an American bear.

                I gave Ivan this sign: An hour spent with friends is a happy hour. (Pronounce "happy hour" in two different ways for two different meanings to the sentence.)

                                                     Oksana, Larissa's friend, and smiley Ivan

I baked a Watergate cake for the occasion.