Birthday

My birthday was awesome. We went to Craig’s Cruisers, which is a big hall with a lot of games, indoor carts and laser tag. It was so much fun and the all you can eat pasta and pizza buffet was great. It was an unforgettable day. The new year started great. We had a nice fondue party with friends and watched the ball dropping on Time Square. The second week of swim practices went really good. I tried the test set for the A- Team and made it finally. The last couple 100s were not really fun and I was dizzy for the next few hours, but it definitely worthed it. Our last three hour practice before next Monday the school starts again was really fun. We did something called „Iron Man“. It‘ s not a several hour long triathlon, but a summary of most of the events in a usual meet including diving. People with about the same speed are racing each other and the first four places out of eight get points. The one, who has the most points after all events, wins a trophy. Really fun! In politics everything got relatively calm after the big issue of the fiscal cliff, which was avoided by congress with a long bill. Unfortunately not much snow fell in the last few weeks. Usually Grand Rapids gets about 31 inches till start of January, but we got only 8 till now. The weather gets weirder every year. Pictures are still in progress, but almost ready to upload.