The Last Four Days

I just feel like writing, so here's some random stuff that's been going on.

On Tuesday, the boys won at softball! Congratulations!

On Wednesday, we went 1 for 3 in volleyball, winning the final game of the night. This moves us up to sixth place! We have a bye this coming week because of the holiday, but we'll be back with a vengeance on the 11th!

Thursday was poker. We had a pretty big crowd - 20 people came over and 15 of them played. Nick and I both made the final table but quickly lost; Dmitry ended up beating Katie to end the game. I think the large crowd was due to the three special guests we had coming; unfortunately, only one of them made it and she didn't play. In her defense, she was only 12 days old then so her hand-eye coordination isn't quite conducive to playing poker yet.

The final table, minus Sergei (he disappeared with his chips so I didn't know he was still in)

The "Good Luck" cake I had made. The "Good Luck" was directed at everyone. The cake was because I felt like getting one!

Earlier in the day was my division's work picnic. It was a lot of fun, but also slightly unsettling because half the poker crowd was missing. I played in an impromptu volleyball tourney. We started off with fours - Andrea and I were on one team and the other six players were men. Our team lost. More guys wandered over and we ended up playing fives next - our team won! Finally, two more guys showed up so the last game was sixes. We started off badly, going down 0-8, then we rallied and came back to 14-10. We ended up winning 18-16. It was a lot of fun, although the ball was a rock! I have a large bruise on my knuckle from bumping that ball. It was interesting to play with Rob not diving at balls - he had on new jeans and didn't want to ruin them :) I also had good luck at the bingo table, winning a $5 gift card and a beach towel. I then won the "final" prize of the day, which was sort of a booby prize but exciting just because it was the last one they had. Finally, I won one of the raffle prizes, a $25 gift card to another place. Fun!

Today was a half day - awesome because we're not going anywhere this weekend. I came home from work, listed some stuff on eBay, took a walk, and took a nap. After Nick got home we went over to Dave and Smeeta's for supper and games. We played a high-scoring game of Puerto Rico. Nick was smoking us all early but ended up in last place. Final scores were 49, 52, 56, 57 and Dave won. If Nick had had one more mayor turn he would have tied Dave! We also played Euchre; both the guys and the girls won one game apiece before Dave and Smeeta had to leave for the airport. Joe Mauer also got his first major league grand slam (3rd homer of the week!) as the Twins pounded the Tigers 11-1.

And thus goes this week's adventures!