Saturday evening we were invited over to a friend’s house for dinner and… Catan! In a world of lunch dates and happy hours and parties where only 1/4 of your guests actually show up, it was ridiculously nice to sit around, drink wine, eat strawberry licorice, play games, make voices, sing songs, be goofy and enjoy each others’ time. More of this please.
Yes. The boy’s friends from university (who are the ones who happen to be here) are all engineers and I love these get togethers where people eat, play, have fun. They are all engineers, so their new thing is a game called “Power Grid” , it is actually lots of fun.
I want to get a board game called “Pandemic” about preventing the next big epidemic (yeah I am a bit of a freak like that).
But otherwise I am a big big fan of Scrabble and Monopoly, they were so traditional in our families, I made sure they were part of our household.
I miss board game parties. Thank you for reminding me of the need to have more of them.
Oh yes, Catan is a good one! I’m glad to see, we’re not the only one enjoying board games with our friends!
Amanda: Pandemic is actually one of my favorites. The big plus is that we all play together so, either we win together (we’re CDC’s super-agents! yay!), either we lose together (eaten by a flesh-eating disease) but there is no possibility for one (usually me, but I’m definitely not the only one!) to get angry at the others for being a poor looser… 🙂
Thanks !! I am all excited now, I will make sure it makes it to our home sometime soon !
OMG! THIS is Catan?! Had I known that was the game you were playing, we totally wouldve crashed your play date!! We play this with Chads parents!! So glad you guys all got to let loose and have a fun play date kind of Saturday night 🙂 Miss you guys!
Let’s get the expansion pack so six players can play!
YES!
Thats RIGHT its only 4 players! We’ll totally go in on that 😉 Cant wait to see all your faces again soon <3
You mean- Catan’t wait! Haha.
Ok bad joke.
hahahahahhahaha …. amazing
BWaahahaha! Omg I die.
The goofy voices really did make it awesome 🙂
settlllleerrrrssss!! Love this game, despite only have played a select few times. Its awesome! You know whats also awesome – that table! I want it! Who/where/why/how!? third – you look beautiful and those earings really DO make that whole skinny minny look 🙂
A tiny baby post about the giant earings will be going up this week! My ears are still sore, but they were a total success.
The table is just a regular picnic table painted blue! (I found it on craigslist!)
wow! that is genius 🙂 Thanks for the deets Christina!
Wood for sheep, anyone?
Oh man, we had so many sheeps. We had sheeps coming out our EARS. 🙂
Catan is pretty much the greatest thing ever! I love playing board games with friends!
What sucks about NY? Or at least my friends in NY? No one has apartments big enough to invite people over. Le sigh.