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January 01, 2006

Happy New Year

So here it is, another New Year.

Amanda and I spent our New Year's Eve with the VanderEspt family, in addition to some of David and Patty's friends: Mark and Clide and their spouses. We spent the evening drinking and playing a game called Cranium.

Now, let me tell you about this so-called game. According to the Web site, it takes 4 or more players and takes about an hour to play. Here's my thoughts on it:

1. The instructions are too vague for people who're drinking.
2. Drawing while blindfolded is stupid.
3. Trying to create something with dried out play-dough like stuff in under 60 seconds is damn near impossible.

When we started playing this game, I thought it would go quickly, as Zack managed to get the VanderEspt team around the board with much speed. However, when they reached the last portion of the game, they stalled and weren't able to complete the game. Mark and Karen go to the same point as they were and stalled too. Clide and Anna got there eventually as well, leaving Amanda and I stuck on the last seat on the short bus ... we couldn't get anything right.

This supposedly hour game took 8 adults and 1 teenager roughly 3 hours to complete. We had to stop in the middle of the game to go and watch the ball drop and come back to it. At this point, I was more interested in having a few more drinks to pass the night along. Eventually, the VanderEspt family won and we all cheered as the game was over.

And I think I found someone more compeditive in game playing than Amanda ... which I honestly thought to be impossible.

Anyhow, Happy New Year to everyone. Let's hope that 2006 is a much better year than 2005 was.

~out...

Posted by ed at January 1, 2006 08:42 PM

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