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My first birthday abroad went off without a hitch. I think a good time was had by all. I had a language share and checked out a school concert with Annika in the morning and the Rigaults through me a little party in the evening, complete with a bit of jewelry and a CD, how nice! But it didn´t stop there. Liz made me a cake and got me a little sumpin, sumpin too. Thanks for all the emails on the day, it was just great to hear from every one. Here are a couple of pictures...

This is me blowing out my candles at the Rigaults. I´m wearing the necklace Louise gave me. It was a cheesecake, a bit chewy and the words they had written on it slid off to the side. Catherine was pissed and said she´d fire someone Monday for it, ha ha! I still thought it was nice that they got me a cake.

This is my really super cool cake the Rigaults put sparklers on. Really neat to see.

Catherine and I on my big day. Thanks so much for the celebration!

Birthday cake number 2 occurred at Liz´s in Germany, what a sweetie that girl is. I´ll make a couple other blogs about that trip, but I´m putting all teh birthday stuff here. I arrived in Bonn and went straight to Liz´s practice. We went over to her apartment after and she had made an awesome brownie/cake. I blew out the candles and then we went to McDonalds. How wonderful. Here´s that pic...

Liz couldn´t find a 2, so she bought two 1´s for me, as you can see on the cake. How inventive!

Ok, so as I said, I´ll do one blog on the trip to Liz´s and one blog on teh basketball part of it, to sort of split things up. Maybe one tonight, but maybe not. For sure check back tomorrow though for the Darby and Liz German Extravaganza!