Last day of summer

We had a Last Day of Summer party last Friday. Just me, Ara, Bessie, and Christian. We had one last Marathon game day before putting our games away in its closet.

I sent out these as invitations.

Invite


I know I know…so we all live in the same compound. But I wanted a dress-up party so I “formally” invited them to it. Otherwise it wouldn’t be an “event” it would be an “I’m bored let’s play a game thing” and we have those every couple of days.

Also, I usually put out the board games at the start of summer. It’s placed right in plain view. A little messy but accessibility is important. You notice how when you’re bored and you have nothing to do, it usually also means it’s an “I’m feeling too sluggish to even reach out for the remote” kind of thing? Anyway, when the games are already out there, you feel as if half of the job is done. Just pick it up and play. Kind of like when you get someone to hand you the remote and now all you have to do is push a button and watch television.

At the end of summer, I have all the board games packed up and put into a closet. The reason is because one, it is such a mess when they are just out there in the open, and two, with the kids going home, there’s really no one available to play the games with anyway.

Since the three are now going to start their first year of College, and the summer semesters would make long boring summer vacation days few and far between. I decided to have a summer game marathon to “seal” the memory.

One day twenty years from now they’ll sit down and say, “Remember the time when Ate Leslie and we used to….. She was so weird.”

Ok... I admit it. Check my profile…what does it say?

Why else do you think I sit down and write these things up?

So anyway, I sent out the invitations, and scheduled the events.

4:30pm Cites and Knights of Catan
7:30pm Turbo Cranium
9:00pm Texas Hold’em Poker

And of course, everyone had to get dressed up. Anything poker-ish would do.

Here we are. Can you guess what we came as?

Me

Ara

Bessie

Cristian

Sirit na?

I came as a Cowboy. You know? Poker as played in Western movies or in the movie Maverick? Ara came as the Joker in a deck of cards, I think. Cristian came as one of the professional Poker players in the Tournaments we see on TV, and I don’t know Bessie’s explanation of her costume. She had a faux fur raccoon cap on. Hmmm, maybe she came as the furry velvet cloth that lines the tops of Poker tables...or maybe she thought since I was coming as a Cowboy, she’ll come as a trapper and be somewhere in the same era. I really have no idea. She came out all pretty though.

We started a little late, and our Catan game went on a little too long. We had hotdogs and pizza, squid balls, popcorn and brownies, which we munched on as we played.

Ara won that particular game.

Catan

Laurie and Josh came to play Cranium with us. It was hilarious. We got Cristian miming a belly dancer one time. I have a video of it. Funny, funny, funny.

At the end, Bessie and I won over Josh and Ara and Cristian and Laurie, who came in second.

Cranium

The poker game went on all night. I quit early. I was tired out. No point in winning anyway since I was the one giving the grand prize of one thousand pesos. The other three tried their hardest. They were tired and sleepy but they wouldn’t stop and forfeit the prize. As I left, Cristian was winning, then later he was losing to the two girls. Ara finally lost at around 3 PM. Then it was just Bessie and Christian. The game finally ended at around 4:30.

Bessie won.

Cristian immediately pressed her to buy him a new pair of shoes. She being Ate and all. She may, or may not... I don’t know.

Poker

It was a half a day-er. Can you imagine…sitting on your butt for 12 hours straight?

That’s the last of those board games. I had them packed away the very next day. Hopefully, next year we’d be able to take them out again.

Goodbye summer.

Tomorrow School officially starts.