Parade & Properties

  This evening we braved the blistery weather and gathered along Main Street for a Christmas parade!

We went with our long time friends, the La Motte family.

After the parade we headed to their house to have some snacks and play games, specifically “Mayberry-opoly!”

We had a great game with an immense amount of wheelin’ and dealin’ and negotiatin’. (For the Monopoly gurus: Benjamin was able to get the Park Place and Boardwalk equivalent properties and built hotels on each.  I think they were landed on more than a dozen times and it made all 5 opponents either go bankrupt or withdraw. )

We also played the game that taught us all we know about Spanish, “Uno!”

We had a great time, but the evening soon turned into early morning and it was time to go home!

New Years Eve

Mom felt well enough today to get up and leave the house, so for New Year’s Eve we ate at a restaurant and then went to Kate’s office.  We brought a few games with us including Monopoly so we started playing it using the “fast game” rules. It ended up being a 4 1/2 hour long game! Here was the final score:

Andrew: $7,761 Lisa: $4,883 Noah: $3,957

Ben & Kate went bankrupt

Even though it was a pretty long game, it was still the easiest $7000 I’ve earned in such a short period of time.

We had hoped to have a family meeting for our vision for the next year, but the Monopoly game took up most of our evening.

I tried printing the timeline I’d created for 2010, but the printer kept on acting up. We finally got home at about 3am.