Friday after work we headed out to Lawrence with Christie. Her sister plays volleyball for Michigan State and they were in a tournament at KU and were playing against KU that evening. Kim’s always been a volleyball player and fan, and I’ve seen my fair share of games as well. Not to mention my career as a volleyball player back in 7th and 8th grades. However, the version of volleyball they played was much different than I remembered. First of all they use rally scoring, which means that a point is won regardless of who served the ball. I guess because of this, they play each game to 30 points instead of the 15 that I am used to. They also play best of 5 instead of best of 3. I also noticed that the ball can hit the net on the serve, I think. The strangest of them all is this new position called a Libero. This is one person on the team who is likely the best defensive person. They are allowed to substitute into the game whenever they want as long as they play the back row. I guess the changes aren’t really that significant and I still could follow most of the game. Michigan State lost the game, but I was told that they won their other two games to take home 2nd place.

From there we drove back to KC, stopping along the way to pick up Joel and Amanda. We then had a little party over at our place. A few of our neighbors stopped by and we actually stayed up until 3AM or so. It was a fun night!

Saturday we were a little slow to get the day started. Kim and I walked down to the Granfalloon to watch part of UC’s loss to Penn State. I’m sure both Amanda and my boss Steve are real happy about that. I then watched some of the other football games and then eventually we headed up to Westport Art Fair with Christie. We walked around the booths for awhile and then chose Harpo’s to watch the Ohio State game. It was a real good game even though Texas won. Oh yeah, Colerain won that high school game against that Texas high school team, Ohio rules! From there we headed to George Brett’s to end the night.

Sunday we woke up a little earlier than the previous day. We played a full set of tennis and actually we both played pretty well I thought. It was way too hot to finish out the match though. I won the first set and probably would have dominated from there. :) After that we picked up Dominique and Bianca and went to a pet store to pick out some new fish for my tank. We settled on about 16 tiny neon tetras. We were supposed to only get 10 of them for $8 but the lady who fished them out couldn’t count I guess. We then played a few hands of cards with them and then had to drop them off so we could get over to Doni and Phil’s. They were cooking up some fajitas along with a tasting of salsas they brought back from New Mexico. The food was excellent and a great way to end the weekend.