Birthday-filled weekend

Before I start I just want to say that Jonathon, you'll never guess what I'm watching in German--Avatar! (It's pretty awesome.)

Okay. Back to business. This weekend I celebrated the birthday of a friend of mine and Nick's father. Alles Gute zum Geburstag, Mike und Ulrich! There was much cake eating and celebrating; good times were had by all. I got to see many of my German friends whom I haven't seen in near a year and just sit and listen to stories. I say listen because, honestly, I didn't do much speaking.

The next night I went to Ray's volleyball game. That's Nick's 6'9'' brother with a wicked jump serve. I have to admit, I was pretty jealous of his team. The whole gym was packed with fans and there was always a chant or cheer happening, always. People had and used noisemakers: drums, sirens, and the like. I got pretty into it and was doing all the chants too. God only knows what I was saying... But it must have helped because they won in 4 and Ray had 5 aces.
Mom, I thought about you a lot that night. I think you would have loved it.

Well, I seem to have run into a bit of writers block so I think that's all for the evening. Bis bald.