4th of July, Games and Fireworks
We took the family out on the road for the 4th – from Texas to Ohio. These family road trips are fantastic. Our gaming family goes off to go visit my husbands gaming family. I suppose it isn’t surprising, but our holiday can be tracked by the games we played along the way:
Driving to Ohio:
- Suduko
- Find the Word Puzzles
- A clever twist on Connect Four called “Toot and Otto,” where you are Toot or Otto and have to spell out your name.
- Nintendo DS games:
- 3 team Mario KartS
- Brother v. Brother matchups of Mario and Luigi in the downloadable game from Super Mario Bros. (punctuated with alot of “That’s MY star!”
- Animal Crossing
At Grandma’s house:
- Euchre, a fantastic card game with a confounding element that takes the Jack of the trump suit and turns it into a ‘Right Bower.’ The jack of the other suit becomes a “Left Bower” (so if the trump is spades, the left bower is the Jack of clubs, etc.) The heirarchy follows as: Right Bower, Left Bower, Ace, King, Queen, Ten, Nine. You throw away anything less than Nine. Enough..google it if you need to know more!
- Uno (with twentyfive cent winnings, paid in impressive piles of nickles.)
- Bingo (again, twentyfive cent winning, but blackouts worth $1 – My youngest won $4.25 between the two games and is quite proud.)
- More of the same Nintendo DS titles.
- Solitaire:Â Our oldest learned to play this one using real cards!
- Freecell:Â He picked this one up pretty fast, and thinks ahead, so he’s got a good mind for it.
4th of July in Batesville, Indiana
- Corn Hole: Where you toss bean bags into a box with a hole in it. Yep, that’s it. This Texas girl didn’t play – give me horseshoes or washers, please. Down in the basement we found a box for game where they called it Baggo. Maybe it’s Baggo in Cincy and Corn Hole in Indy?
- World of Warcraft:Â yes, the farmhouse has a robust wifi and my son was able to log in, check the auction house and get a quick fix of WoW.
We didn’t have time for any Hand and Foot, which is a variation of Canasta. We’ll have to catch it next time, our 9yo is quite good at it and loves playing.
My ladies league fantasy football draft started up a week ago, so there was drafting throughout the holiday. After the draft I’ll post a summary of the draft, but so far it’s going well!
With so much going on, we couldn’t get up to Origins, a large gaming convention in Columbus. Next year we’ll really have to extend our visit so we can get up there.
Graeter’s Ice Cream, Skyline Chili, and gaming – we just love visiting Grandma!
