Friday was a long but very fun day. We were awoken before 4am by the incessant buzzing of trash talk text messages. The league was ready to get this draft show on the road, so we dragged ourselves out of bed and put a big pot of coffee on. The draft itself took about 2 hours and was uneventful. A bit of a disappointment after having a live draft and a big board the last few years. We missed spending the time with our friends, and based on the numerous comments, they missed Dan's annual homemade taco bar.
The work day was productive so we powered through that into the evening. Hannah and Robin had a dinner party at their house. Hannah's birthday is the 12th but quite a few of us are out of town that day so she decided to do it early. Since her mom is Ghana and leaves on the 11th, it made sense to do it while she was still here. She requested on the invite that we dress up, but we weren't really sure how formal that was. Dan asked if he needed to bust out his tuxedo, and I said I don't think that's necessary. He replied with "tuxedo t-shirt?" Um, can we go somewhere in the middle? I told him what he wore to work was probably sufficient.
We walked over to their place and slowly everyone started arriving. All in all there were about 20 people. They had dinner catered and had a bunch of tables arranged in a U shape with place settings in the living room. They also moved their fridge to the living room with all the drinks and cups. It was quite an impressive spread. Certainly more furniture than their house usually holds (especially considering it took them 6 months or so to actually get a sofa haha).
Dinner was tasty and the company was good. Hannah put out place cards and kind of split up couples so you got to meet some new people which was nice. The night went on and I completely lost track of time. Not surprisingly, we found ourselves with Sam and Alex as the last men standing and we were all getting tired. We piled in the truck and Asare drove us home. Imagine my surprise when I got into the house and finally saw a clock. What? It's 2:50am?! Holy cow. Dan and I had been awake almost 24 hours. Suffice to say we slept quite well.
Saturday was a lazy recuperating day catching up on sleep and enjoying some college football. Sunday we are going to church. Yes, after a year in Ghana, we finally agreed to go. Dan's coworkers ask him to go almost every week so it was about time we acquiesced. I'm hoping for a lot of standing, dancing, singing, Hallelujah's, etc. Almost wish I could wear a wire just so I could record the happenings, because I'm imaging it's quite a scene. But you'll have to wait till Thursday to hear about it :)
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