birthdays in turkey

We had two birthdays this weekend so we celebrated both last night. My friend Kristin and I did most of the planning. Our host sisters helped us out a lot because we couldn't follow the directions on the back of the cake boxes (being that they were in Turkish).

So we made two cakes: One was chocolate with nutella instead of icing.

The other was vanilla with a layer of strawberry jam in the middle and cool whip icing.

As you can see, both had "Happy Birthday" written out in gummy worms. A few of our worms got eaten (I believe by Kristin's host dad), so we had to use m&ms.

We went to toys r us and got the boys hats. We also found this strange sparking fruit juice so we got them each a bottle of that as well. We went to dinner (and by we I mean a group of about 25, both Americans and Turks), and then we went to one of the only night clubs in Ankara. It was a good night and I think the guys had very good birthdays.

I am currently doing laundry!