Family Game night

We don't actually have a designated family game night, yet.  However, any particular time you want to stop by, you'll probably find family game night (time) going on.  Sometimes it takes the form of of reading together, or like last night practicing new circus acts while in the tub...be still my heart I am not kidding...I turned around and the girls were in the middle of a death defying, improbable circus act, while all three of them were in the tub.  I won't get into all the details, but one big sister was standing and had one little sister on her shoulders and together they were obviously moving into some new position that would evoke gasps of disbelief from the audience.  That is until the ring master showed up and put a stop to the entire show!

But we do love to play games.  We have a large cedar chest...very large and heavy when empty, cedar chest that is FULL of games.  Adult strategy games to candy land. Cards to dice. and at the very least 3 but more likely 4 different versions of Monopoly...we may have a sickness.  FYI, no matter what Eric tells you, Star Wars monopoly, Lord of the Ring monopoly, Decorah (my hometown) monopoly or any other "fun" version of monopoly is played exactly like regular monopoly.  The difference, it is written in Klingon.

I know that Klingon is actually Star Trek and not Star Wars but it is fun to just lump them all together just so you can watch your exasperated husband explain AGAIN the differences and just what language Star Wars is written.  I also can not remember what language it is written in so I just call it Klingon.  When I buy up Park Place and Boardwalk and put up hotels on them...it doesn't matter what they are called or if they are even called hotels, I'm still going to charge an outrageous amount of rent each time you land on it.  And no, I don't care if you call it dollars, pesos, or funny Klingon currency. Just pay up!

This particular night CJ picked the game.  Battleship.

Yea, we thought with so many group game options why should we play a two person one.  Because, we all LOVE, just LOVE to pick up tiny tiny little pieces and knock over our own board so we get to reset everything again and again.  Okay no we don't LOVE to do that, but that is pretty much how it went.  We were divided into teams.

board set up, clean up in aisle 3 please.

It was an intense game of strategy, with secrets being handed down one generation to the next.

Look at that face, it's the face of a traitor!  I know I can get the locations out of him!

The impromptu interpretive dance, was a great distraction during this not so high pace game.

He chose the music, changing it when it was not what he wanted...and this went on for several minutes.

Did his sisters enjoy the show?

Yes...I believe they did