Thursday, September 17, 2009

Home sweet home

We have finally made it home after two weeks of traveling. Thank goodness I did not have to stay in a hotel the entire time, although I did have my fill of them. Our trip started out in College Station. Our dear sweet friends the Maders graciously opened up their home to us. We spent our first weekend in College Station going to the Aggie football game where they beat the hell out of New Mexico, WHOOP! Then on Sunday morning we went back to Grace Bible Church, it was so nice to be back. Sunday night we packed our bags and headed to Houson TX. It was a pretty uneventful business trip for Drew I just went along for the ride. We visited with our friends the Muellers and played a fun round of Mario Cart (such a fun game- I highly recommend it). Friday afternoon we headed back to College Station to stay with the Maders we had a wonderful time playing fun new games...

Yahtzee Free For All...a fun board game for players 2 or more, the game is like the original where you try and get all the same number dice but you can also get straights, full house, 3 of a kind, or just certain numbers. This game is a blast for the whole family. The object is to win a card off the game board by getting the dice to match what the card says. Each card is worth a different amount of points. When all the cards are gone the player with the most points wins!

we also played,

Bananagrams...it is a mix of scrabble and a crossword puzzle. All the letter tiles are put face down on the table, each player grabs 21 tiles, when a person yells "split" everyone turns their letters over and starts to create words in a crossword style (each player has their own crossword). When a player runs out of letters (all their tiles are used) they yell "peel" and every player grabs one new tile from the grab pile. If you have a letter that you cannot make into a word (q, x, z ect.) you yell "dump" and put that letter back in the grab pile face down and pick up 3 new tiles from the grab pile. When all the tiles have been taken from the grab pile the person who uses all their tiles first wins the game. That player will yell "finish" and of course you check their words to make sure they are correct. It is a great game to get your brain thinking.

the last game we played is a card game called Blink... (must use Blink cards!)
This is a game played between two poeple. The dealer passes out all the cards except two. The two remaing cards are layed face down in two seperate piles. When the dealer says go each player flips over one of the cards that was face down in a pile. The cards that were delt to the each player remain face down in a stack, when the two cards have been flipped over each player can pick up three cards from their stack to play with (a player can only have three cards in their hand at a time...and they must use the ones they picked up first). Looking at the three cards in their hands a player tries to put them on one of the discard piles by matching either number, color, or object. The first player to discard all their cards wins.

I had a wonderful time visiting with friends while Drew was away at work, but after two weeks we are sure glade to be home with our puppy Buttercup!

Have a fabulous rest of the week,
Jennifer

1 comment:

Christine said...

It was great seeing you guys again!