Kaiser

Well, it finally happened. After months of anticipation and days of preparation, the Kaiser tournament took place at the Rokos household this afternoon. It was pretty intense. When we got there, we each had to fill out a questionnaire that would then somehow compute the most effective partner match-ups. Probably the most important question was how big our crush on Ben Olson is. I assume that people with similar responses got paired up, which worries me because I chose the "life-threatening" option...and ended up being Nate's partner. Anyhow, it didn't matter. We were now ready to play.
Nate suggested "Beauty and the Geek" as our team name. Obviously he was feeling very pretty. With that intimidation factor, we managed to barrel through four games before losing out in the round robin. I only had one strike against me, and he got two strikes against him...so we were pretty even. We were also pretty proud about staying above the negative line. So really, we did better than we'd originally hoped. Even I found myself capable of strategizing, which isn't too common in card games.
All in all, it was a super sweet day. We ended with Norwegian pizza for supper (ketchup, ground beef, corn, cheese, and peppers on pizza dough), then poker and a little bit of hot-tubbing. The Kaiser victors were Nick and Alex, although there wasn't a prize to give them. I guess tin foil trophies are so last year.