Last night was another fantastic celebration at our semi-weekly gathering place. Everyone brought food or spirits to endulge in. Friends who do not usually frequent our game nights came to shar in the festivities. I went with my lingering effects from a visit by Uncle Larry N. Gitis. Honestly, I feel fine but my voice says otherwise. I remember losing my voice years ago a few weekends before I auditioned for a summer position at Cedar Point. I made the audition, sang my audition piece and was asked to come back a half-hour later for the dance portion of the try out. Unfortunately, my graceful choreographic ability failed to impress… their loss, right?
While playing charades, which my team was winning (thank you very much) the time had arrived to watch Ryan Seacrest announce the ball drop. Dick Clark made an appearance from the studio; however, the damage done by his stroke of a few years ago is still apparent. I noticed an almost plastic appearance to Mr. Seacrest. Not sure if it was the lighting or makeup but he just looked wierd. Speaking of charades, I do not think that the movie or novel Return of the King is obscure. It was a title given to one of the other two teams but I thought it was a very good suggestion. My gracefulness was put to good use in my acting out the movie title Last Tango in Paris.
Shortly thereafter, we read some Weakest Link questions. I tried to keep quiet to allow others to answer. However, I heard some moaners from the other players imploring me to wait until the question was read. Finally, we moved on to some Outburst, and thank goodness for the arrival of our final player because some of the questions were beyond my expertise. By the time we had arrived to an I.Q. testing game, I was lying on the floor.
But like last year, it was a great end to the old and beginning of the new. There was no other place I wanted to be. I hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe holiday season and wish everyone the best in 2009.
Sounds like you had some fun. 🙂
For myself, I attended a party at my church with a couple of members from my small group. As for games, we had our own selection anyone could play including chess, spoons, bunco, scrabble, and several more. Someone put up the DVD game Family Feud, but no one played it for the length of time I was there.
We definitely had more a selection at admin’s with their closet of games. We could prolly have a game night once a week for a year without repeating… yes?
I would guess so – not including factors like how many players we have though
I had thought about that variable as well as well as games that would appeal to all (I know of at least 2 specific tv show trivia games that would not appeal to everyone) 😀