Check out that spread!
Notice in the lower left hand side of the picture there's a game called Carcassonne Big Box? That's one of Rob and Kelli's favorite games. Keao and I tried to play it a few weeks ago and let me tell you, it is a fun game, but it really does make you feel like a geek! Without giving you too many details, there are these little humanoid figures called Meeples (rhymes with peoples). They can farm, rob, occupy cities and the like. So your goal is to get as many points using these Meeples to farm, rob, etc. The game goes round and round until you run out of tiles and then all the points are added up. Like I said before, it is a fun game...just a little nerdy :)
Look at that intensity!
Now it looks like they're having fun
But Carcassonne wasn't the only game we played. We also played one of my all-time favorite games, Scattergories. Basically Scattergories is played with a die that has different letters on it. You roll the die and whatever letter is on top is the letter for the list. What that means is that you need to answer every item on the list with a word or words starting with the letter. For instance, if your letter is L and one of the items on the list is "villians" you could answer Lucifer or Lex Luthor or any villian that starts with the letter L (it doesn't matter if it's a first name or last name). The catch is that you cannot have the same answer as anyone else or they negate each other. When you play with people with big vocabularies and a large knowledge base this game can be really fun and exciting (for instance, John John pulled out Djibuti City as a capital starting with the letter D). I don't want to brag or anything, but I pretty much owned everyone at Scattergories. That's right, you read that right. I pretty much owned everyone. If you think you can take me on let me know. I'm always willing to send someone home crying!
Despite their spanking, the other couples still managed to smile
