Saturday

Today was Simon's birthday party at last!  I got up, ate breakfast, got dressed, and Merinda took me to the bus stop.  The whole way, I was giddy with excitement!  He had said in the invitation that we were going "summer sledding".  I had heard of these bobsled-like things that go down a small track but I had never been on one and did not know how fast and how safe they were.  When I got to the school, I waited for everyone else to come and last of all, Simon and his dad drove up.  But it was only Simon, Mark, Lukas, and me because Resul, Denis and Yasin could not make it.  Too bad, they really missed out!

When we got to Simon's house, we did gifts first and faster than you can say "Jack Robinson", we were driving to the summer sledding.  When we got there, we bought tickets and got in the bobsled.  There was a big stick between our legs on each bobsled, this was the brake when pulled back and the accelerator when pushed forward.  We went countless times down and then getting pulled up two-hundred meters (one thousand feet) by a chain.  We even found a camera hidden just off the track taking photos of us going down and started waving at it, making funny faces at it, and even just sticking our tongues out at it!  We all had a lot of fun and hardly wanted to pause to eat we were so excited to go again, but it was too good to last.

When we got home, Simon got out a pack of strange looking cards.  These were apparently cards to a game called Werewolf.  After several rounds of Werewolf, we decided to go outside and play with the water guns Simon had given us.  I was on a team with Lukas and we ran off as fast as we could to find a good hiding place while Simon and Mark counted.  It was fun to run around without shirts squirting each other when they least expected it.  I am glad I went and we all had tons and tons of fun that will stick in our memories forever!