Yesterday, we managed to get in two sports, Tennis and Quidditch. Quidditch? Laura had bought me the EA Games computer version of Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup, and as I'd just reformatted the hard-drive and picked up a sound card, we could finally fire it up. It was set up very well, giving you hints and training lessons for all the actions you need to do, and even has a built-in collectable card element, so that the more cards and feats you perform, the more parts of the game are unlocked (Still have yet to unlock the Bulgarian team.) We had a tense battle of dodging, tackling and scoring, until the final spotting of the Golden Snitch, which we raced for and Laura beat me handily. We look forward to playing again soon. Also yesterday afternoon we headed next door to the tennis courts and played a quick game; now that the weather is getting a little warmer, it will be something to do and get outside this summer, along with golf, as Laura's taking a golf class this semester and picking things up quite well.

As for games tonight, it was the first of our game nights since last July without Matt Lavine. He's been our most regular participant and we missed him and his witty commentary. Laura and I started out with Pig, a game of taking chances on bigger rewards. You roll a die, and you add the number rolled to your previous points. Now you can either stop and take your points, or continue to roll, but if you roll a 6, all point earned on this turn are lost and your turn is over; not too complicated, but fun for a five minute game. Then we pulled out Gobblet, where Laura once again showed me it's not as simple as I might think. By then, Kathleen, Burr and Natalie had shown up, so we moved to multi-player games. We enjoyed Sternenhimmel (Stary Night) last week, and since Burr and Natalie missed out on that playing, we pulled it out again, filling up constellations with influence. Kathleen headed home, and we wrapped up the night with a quick deduction game of Coda.