CO: Birthday Party

That Thursday was my sister’s birthday. I had mailed her presents so I didn’t have to bother having wrapped things in my suitcase and confuse the TSA even more than bare skin seems to. She seemed to like her presents – they were mostly items from her wish-list so it was things she wanted. After she came home from work we went to the Edelweiss German Restaurant (I go there at least once every time I’m in Colorado) for her party. I haven’t had a party since I was a little kid and even then it was a combined one with my brother and sister (since our birthdays are: June, July and August) so it was nice to see her have her own party and not a shared one. She had invited people from her different jobs and out of the 13 people (including myself and my sister – her boyfriend didn’t come  - I only knew 3 other people. The rest I had never met before or was introduced to them for a second the one time I went to her work last year.

My sister and I got there around 6 pm (the party was starting at 6:30 pm) and until the first guests arrived I wondered if anyone would actually show up. I’m not saying my sister doesn’t have any friends, but in my experience the only time I see friends or family is when I have to do all the work to visit. At 6:30 on the dot the first guests came.  They were the 2 out of the 3 people I actually knew. I had met them on my last visit in September 2015. Luckily (at least for me – not so sure they felt the same by the end of the night), they sat across from me and not at the end of the table or at the second table. As most people know I like to talk and usually I don’t have anyone in person to talk to so it was nice to converse in real life. The fact that the couple have experience traveling and living around the world gave us more common things to share. Other than a few “hellos” to some of the other guests the majority of the night I spent having a ball talking to people who actually could keep up with what I was saying and had interesting things themselves to add. I do need to learn my numbers and elevations as I was way off in that topic, but I’ve never been good with Math or numbers. I know that sounds arrogant, but most of the guests were talking about construction or things only local to Colorado and that seemed pretty boring to me. The party lasted until 9 pm and the time really flew by. I had been worried beforehand that I would be stuck in agony the whole night faking a conversation with people I didn’t know or didn’t like, but that wasn’t the case at all. It was a pretty cool party. I only wish I didn’t have to travel long distances for these kinds of experiences since I didn’t used to have to. I’ll stop playing my mini-violin now and move on.