game-filled weekend

this weekend for Easter, my brother and Alex both came out from their respective schools to celebrate. my family decided to make sunday a game day, and we had some good times. first we played bananagrams, a new game that my parents gave scott in his Easter basket (yes, we still get Easter baskets). bananagrams is kind of like scrabble, but easier. you get a bunch of letter tiles and you have to use all of them to spell connecting words.


my brother, who had played before, was awesome at it, alex and i did alright, and my parents were (surprisingly) terrible! my mom kept muttering all of these non-words as she tried to use all of her difficult letters (J's are more difficult than you'd think!)...we were amused.

then we moved on to monopoly deal, which i've actually blogged about before here. alex and i had played a bunch on our own, but we decided to share the joy with the rest of the family. although it took a little while to get the hang of it (about 2.5 games into it, my mom goes "wait, so everyone gets 3 plays per turn??"...which is the most basic rule of the game and my brother kept trying to put properties in his bank), we had a lot of fun.


we ended on one particularly dramatic round, where my mom tried to get revenge on my brother and win the game only to be foiled by his "just say no" card, and my dad successfully stole a full set of properties from me by laying his "just say no" card on my "just say no card" (there's only 3 in the deck), only to lose his two full sets and all of his money in just one round. all three of these instances ended in table-round high-fives (excluding the thwarted party of course). good times.