Ruthless Luck

In volleyball tonight we were beat by the strong winds. We lost our first game (against the wind) 17-25, won the second (into the wind) 25-13, and lost the third (first half against, second half into) something like 14-25. So a 2-1 start to the season and it was pretty crazy - balls making right angles or being bumped forwards but ended up behind you. Maybe next week will be a tad less windy.

After volleyball, Dave came by and fried up some eggs while I used my KitchenAid to make the first batch of banana bread out of my rotten bananas (bought them just to make banana bread). We played two games of Settlers. In the first, I was ruthless, getting Dave to trade me all the cards I knew he'd give up and then using my monopoly to get his wood, then using a soldier to move the thief off my five before rolling a five, getting Nick to trade me a clay, and building a road and a city to win. Nick was pretty mad when he realized if he had built a road on his previous turn he would have been the winner! In the second game, my numbers kept getting rolled and I won in about twenty minutes - Dave was next closest with six points. Oddly enough, the thief was never active in the second game and only moved once by a seven in the first game. Helped keep the games moving right along. Smeeta will be back soon so maybe we'll be playing more games with Dave not leaving us quite so often.

And that's the night. Hoping for some more Ed vs Karin tomorrow evening :)