Card Club

18th of April, Saturday

I woke up at the Ritson's house. After watching the Prince of Egypt, an old Disney movie about Moses with an amazing soundtrack and oahead-of-its-time design, Sarah drove me back to the Masiellos.

  The plan was to go see The Little Mermaid, the musical that Greece Arcadia did this year at 2 pm. Turns out, the show was at 7, so we just bought tickets for the only other time we could watch it: next Sunday.

  So instead of enjoying some high school theatre, we enjoyed the sunshine of a beautiful and hot day. We're very thankful for this kind of weather. 

  We went in to Wegmans for milk, and the only thing we forgot to buy was milk. I have to say though, that happens to me in Hungary way more than I want it to.

  At 7, Kim and Mike had their cards club, and I asked them to let me join as a spectator. The party was held at their friend Rita's house. Ten couples came, some I knew, some I met there. Wonderfully nice people!

  Everybody brought an appetizer or a dessert, and we socialized for a while. Then the grownups were randomly put into pairs, and everybody sat down to play euchre. Euchre is an American difficult card game. Kim tried to teach me how to play it the afternoon, I kind of get it, but I'm not confident enough to play it. Basicly, two couples have five cards each, and the goal is to win the most rounds of cards by having the highest cards in the round. We play a similar game with my parents and friends called "Rikiki", but euchre is more complicated.

  So in this party, everybody counted their individual scores. If the couple lost, they stayed at the same table, if they won, they moved to a different table. This way, they never played with the same person twice.

  Between each round, the players would get up, eat some more, talk, have fun. I just walked around, checking out each table. I made quite a few friends.

  After the final round, everybody counted their final score, and the person with the highest and lowest  score won. The person with the highest was our host, while the person with the lowest was Mike.

  It was 11 pm when we got home. I was tired, but happy, that I got to know a lot of my hostfamily's friends.