Crazy Games

So if you have been reading this blog for any length of time or have been a part of my life outside of this blog, you will have realized that my family is game crazy. We play anything and everything from board games to card games, old games like Chutes and Ladders to new games like Mad Gab (which I don't really like by the way,) even made up games.

Those made up games are usually the ones that we play over and over again. It all started, I think, with House Rally. We are divided into two teams (this game is usually played with my aunt, uncle and cousins.) One person would set out clues all over our house, while everyone else waited at our uncle and aunt's house. When they came back, the time would start for the first team, they would run over and search for the clues leading them through out the house. Time would stop once everyone made it back to our uncle and aunt's house. Then the next team would go, looking for a better time than the other team. We played it many different ways in both houses. Sometimes the games aren't as elaborate as House Rally. They sometimes are as simple as: "Who can hit the tree first with a Rock?" or Okole charades.

Over Christmas Break my sister and I discovered a new game for our family to play: "Who could sit on the exercise ball the longest?" I thought my mom would have an advantage because it was her workout ball we were using, but I was wrong. Everyone had different techniques as to where to place your hands, should you sit or lay on the ball, and do you squeeze the ball with your legs or not. Bil ended up winning. He sat on the ball for something like 57 seconds. Good Job Bil! We kind of decided the less weight you had the easier it would be. My dad tried the laying down method.

I was all about putting my hands on the back of the ball and pushing in when I thought I was going to roll. My p.b. (personal best) was 5 sec. that night. I went home and practiced and ended up getting something like 27 sec. the next day.

The big winner! He kept his hands out to the sides and would move them back and forth when he felt himself sliding.

We also played Nerts, a multi-person game of speed solitaire that I learned to play in college. It was the first time for my bil and sis and they held their own, but I kicked butt! Well I ended up winning.