Basketball in Berlin!

By Micah 

(Annotated by Mommy)

Last night (it was Saturday.  As we all know, Mommy is delinquent in blogging), we went to a basketball game last night at the O2 World arena.  ALBA Berlin was playing Trier.  ALBA is the professional team in Berlin.  We got signs at our seats.  One side said “YEAH” and the other side said “BUUUH”!    

Mark and I decided we would answer all questions-from-children with these signs.  That didn't go over so well.

The signs folded up like fans to make noisemakers (insanely loud ones, if you ask me).  The ALBA mascot is an albatross (but Dafna insisted it was a duck).

If it looks like a duck...

The team colors are gold and blue.  Their uniforms looked like the Golden State Warriors.  Trier’s uniforms were green and white.  I wore my Kevin Garnett Celtics jersey, which is also green and white.  But I was still rooting for ALBA.

ALBA Berlin won the game, 87-72.  The leading scorer was Levon Kendall.  ALBA also had a player from Israel named Bar Timor.  Trevon Hughes, who used to play for Wisconsin, played guard for Trier.  He had a good game, even though ALBA won.

Former Badger

(Halftime was hilarious.  An over-emotional accordion player-- the winner of Lithuania's Got Talent! Check him out: I mean, Jan Hagedorn can you do this?  Oh, and of course, dancers dancing to bad hits of the '80's.)

We ate French fries and pretzels at the game.  We got to stay up pretty late.  Today (Sunday) I am tired.   I stayed in my bed almost all morning until lunchtime. (Kind of, first he got up, did computer, ate breakfast and played for awhile.  Then he took a nap.  Then he ate lunch).

I really liked the game.  Daddy and I are going to go back to another game soon.

We all had fun.  The blur is the sign/noisemaker.  Making noise.