How Do You Turn This Thing On?

Last night marked the 3rd Official Bassick Family Game Night.  Everyone was home, all of the homework was done,  no one was crying – it was the perfect time!

But what to play?

Sprout voted for another round of Apples to Apples, but Mike instituted a new rule – we can’t play the same game two weeks in a row – so that was out.

I suggested Yahtzee, because, well…why not?

Sprout was on board with this, but Tater suggested a few rounds of Wii Sports Resort.  Apparently he had bested Mike at fencing the other night and was quite anxious to do so again.

That would have been fine – I like the archery (with no chance of actually killing anyone, which is my gripe against REAL archery and the reason I failed that gym class in college) and throwing a virtual frisbee to a virtual (obedient) dog.  But in order to avoid a tied vote, Mike sided with us on Yahtzee and we tabled Wii Sports Resort for next week.

So Tater went and got out the Yahtzee box and I think he was somewhat stunned by how little STUFF there was in the box.  A cup.  Five dice. Paper.

Where’s the GAME?

Where are the batteries?

How do you turn it on?

But once we sat down and started playing and he got the hang of it, he loved it!  He was like a little Vegas craps player – blowing in the cup on the dice before every role.  He got that from his dad.  Such a play-ah.

And what do you know – he won!  Much to his sister’s discontent.  She added up her score about five times with the calculator hoping for it to come out to a higher number, but no such luck.

But she had fun, too.  We all did.  FGN rocks!

I have to go practice my fencing for next week – gotta be a contender!

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