Well, my sister and her husband are in town and staying with us. They arrived on Halloween evening and go back to Chicago on Monday. So far our time has been spent catching up, walking our dogs and enjoying our pool (we heated it for their time here).
While they’re here, my sister is also doing her schoolwork for her classes she’s taking online. Her nursing one is work…but she’s also taking a Diversity class that we’re both finding very interesting. I remember taking a workshop at my prior job about leading diverse teams. This takes it a step further. I think tomorrow I’ll be posting some of the intriguing questions that have come up.
Tonight we spent our evening playing Apples To Apples…a very fun game. Have you guys ever heard of it? Basically each person takes a turn as the reader. The reader reads off a specific word and definition. Everyone else has 7 cards that have words that could be used as an explanation or example to represent the reader’s word. Once all the cards are selected each person gets an opportunity to argue their case to the reader. The reader picks which word he thinks best represents the definition. It’s freaking hilarious! What games do you guys enjoy playing with friends? Do you guys play board games?
Tomorrow we go to a cousin’s birthday party. The next day is our family’s early Thanksgiving since my sis and her hubby won’t be here. We’re gonna head to mom’s to chow down! My hubby will be making a gluten free chocolate pecan pie. I’ll probably be making a carrot cake. Step dad will be deep frying a turkey.
What foods do you look forward to for Thanksgiving?
theinnerwildkat 
Oh Kitt you don’t even want to be around when my sisters and I get into a Scrabble game we are vicious I tell you but oh what fun we have. The apples to apples game sounds like great fun and think I would like to know more about it.
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Hey, we haven’t played scrabble this time. I love scrabble! I have a feeling we would enjoy watching your family scrabble!
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My sister and I love playing Scrabble. Now that we’re married, we enjoy playing in teams…boys against girls. 🙂 It gets quite competitive…
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Apples to apples super fun, cranberries and pie.
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LOL!
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I love Scrabble and playing spades (jailhouse rules).
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Spades is fun, too. My favorite card game is Euchre, though. 🙂
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Are you English, per chance?
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Only partially. My granny moved to the US with my grandma when Grandma was 16. It is, however, a pretty popular game in the Midwest (as are most trump games). I learned from friends who played it in college.
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Ah, gotcha. I learned how to play Bouree in an old folk’s home I was volunteering at when I was young. The lesson there–don’t trust old ladies who offer to teach you how to play Bouree.
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Or poker, LOL! They’re usually card sharks. 😉
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Do not trust old women with rolls of quarters in their purses. Period.
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I love Apples to Apples, especially when the Helen Keller card comes up. I’m also a big fan of Scattergories. You have to roll a dice (di?) with every letter of the alphabet on it, and whatever it lands on you have to fill out this list as completely as you can, and if you get the same answer for one category as someone else you have to scratch it off. …It’s actually a lot more fun than it sounds right now as I’m describing it.
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Katie, have you heard of Scattegories Categories? It’s another way to play. I saw the box when I went to Vermont for the day, thought I’d get it back home, but apparently don’t have it in Quebec (hmmm). I’ll need to go back to Vermont to get it.
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Oh, I’m very familiar with Scattergories, Katie! I love that game! We bought the electronic version so that you tap the die and it picks your letter. 😉 I also find Balderdash (the liars game) to be tons of fun. They give you an obscure word. You read it out. If you’re the reader you also write down the real definition. Everyone else makes up a definition. If you actually know the real definition you get 1 point or choose it you get 2 points. If people vote for your definition as the true definition, you also gets point.
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I adore Apples to Apples! We also play Scattegories (like Katie – it’s a really fun game), Munchkin, Cranium, and all sorts of card games.
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Cranium is a blast. And best drinking board game ever is I’ve Never… 🙂 (Played that one for the first time on New Years Eve)
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Oh yeah! My boyfriend and I play Scrabble all the time. He’s terrible at spelling, but knows the best spot to put tiles for maximum points. Somehow he always beats me by a few points….so annoying!
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Yeah…I tend to be doubly dangerous that way. I’m pretty good with words and spelling AND I play strategically with my word placement. Learned to do that several years ago. 🙂
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Chocolate pecan pie yummy! During thanksgiving we always have turkey stuffed with chorizo rice 🙂
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Ooh, that sounds very tasty! I’ve never done chorizo rice. 🙂
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Sounds terrific! Enjoy this time with your family.
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Thanks, Phil. I will! Not often we’re all in the same place these days.
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Hooray sounds like great fun and good memories!!
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It was!
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Love board games! Especially Trivial Pursuit. We’ve played a game for years that sounds sort of like your Apples to Apples, but all you need is a dictionary. Somebody reads a word out of the dictionary and then gives a definition. It could be the definition in the dictionary or it could be one they made up. The other players’ job is to confirm that it’s the right definition or not.
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That sounds like Balderdash. In Apples To Apples you have 7 different words or phrases in your hand. When the reader says the word and it’s definition you have to choose one of the seven words in your hand that best match or describe the word read.
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