Vacation Day 45: Game Day

Today was a lazy day at home. It was nice because a lot of the family was able to come back by to play games. They were planning on coming over for breakfast, but of course that means they came over for lunch at 12:30. We watched the MythBusters Marathon while we waited for them to arrive.

Maria was worn out. She took a bath and then a nap. The group came over for games and started with “Holiday Trivia by the Pound”. This game was hecka hard! The group ended up giving hints to make the questions easier to answer.

Next was a new family favorite, Pirate’s Dice! Andrew bought a skull and filled it with Pirate dice in DisneyWorld, so his custom set he made accomodates 15 players! Regular Pirate’s dice that comes in a box only accomodates 4 players.

After Steph came over and Maria woke up, we played a new game called Boxers or Briefs. This was really fun, and we played two times. A player rolls the special die, and the die reads a phrase such as, “I like”, “I am”, “I don’t” or “I want”; then the rest of the players choose an answer from their hand (they have cards that complete these phrases) that they believe is either the most true or the most funny. Then the player who rolled the die chooses the winner of the most funny and most true responses. The winners each get a token. The first player to 6 tokens wins. It was funny because when it was Angie’s turn, everyone’s answers had to do with her needing money or wanting money. She was like, “what the heck”? Guess she shouldn’t complain about poorness so much!

After Boxers or Briefs, we played Steph’s new game, Electronic Guesstures. It’s like charades with an electronic display giving you one word to act out. This game was extra fun because it had a twist. You got 30 seconds to act out as many words as you could get your team to guess, but if you were in the middle of acting out a word when time ran out, you lost all points accumulated that turn. So it was fun deciding if the actor should risk trying another word after a successful guess. Sometimes we lost all of our points – sometimes we raked them in!

Next, we whipped out the Holiday Charades. We played though EVERY SINGLE one of the cards! That’s some serious charades! This family sure does know their Christmas stuff!

Gina sent some home movies over for us to watch, so we checked those out. She had a really neat presentation put together, with captions and cool menus. One of the movies was from Christmas 2001. It’s funny to see how everyone has changed. You could really tell how long ago it was by looking at Jocelyn! She was so little there – and now she’s a young woman.

Vavu opened up his new Charlie Brown Christmas Game, and a little group played that. Jeremy tried to eat the pretend candy canes. The kids mostly just ran around and played with toys most of the day. Sometimes they participated in the games, like Madison played the Charlie Brown game all by herself. But mostly they just played toys!

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The best part of day 45 was having the family together to play games.
The worst part of day 45 was being tired.
What we learned on day 45 was Angie wants money, this family is really good at Holiday Charades.
The weather on day 45 was um, cold.