Friends, Food and Games

What a fun weekend! Saturday we had a great day cleaning and being lazy, then running a few errands. In the evening Asher and Aaron came over to play games. Asher took up his spot on the couch and played Mario Smash Brothers on the wii for about 6 hours while the "adults" played games. For those of you who don't know, Aaron is our resident game guru. He has well over 300 games, has published one, and is working on publishing another. He knows games, loves playing them, and is a great resource for learning new games.We played Dominion first, which as always, is a fantastic game. We've played it before and love it. This was a different setup than we've done before, which is always awesome to learn. Aaron won, by quite a bit.

Then we tried out Ubongo. It's like timed competitive Tangrams. Whoever gets their Tangram puzzle finished first gets first pick at which gems they want to collect, whoever has the most gems of one color at the end wins. If you don't finish your Tangram in the allotted amount of time then you don't get any gems. Aaron won again.

Next we broke out Cleopatra. It's a days of wonder game that we've seen around a bunch of times but haven't ever played. Essentially you're collecting various materials in order to build a palace for Cleopatra. The catch is that in order to build, sometimes you're forced to gain corruption points. At the end of the game, whoever has the most corruption (me) is thrown into the Nile to be eaten by the crocodiles and isn't even considered for winning the game. And are we surprised? Aaron won this as well.

Sunday we had a nice and lazy day, then Wardles came over. We hadn't seen them in a couple weeks, so it was really nice to spend some time with them. We did a crab boil for dinner with 6 pounds of snow crab, a pound of shrimp, and some fresh green beans. We dumped it all on the table (no plates or anything) and dove in. It was SOOO GOOOD. Then the games began.


First we broke out Witch's Brew. It took me and Z a while to figure out what was going on, but once we did, it was a lot of fun. It's kind of frustrating how little control you ultimately have over your own hand, but still a really cool game dynamic. Steph won this one.

Then we broke out Dice Town. This is a game that Z and I played with Aaron about 6 months ago, then went and bought a few weeks ago cuz we liked it so much. Once we got things going it was a lot of fun. After stealing everyone's property and robbing a TON of money from the bank, Craig ended up winning.