Wishing for ABL!

With about one month done in our quest to finish 100 games in 366 days, we are cruising right along!  We've already finished all the A games and almost all the B games.  That's 15 games in 27 days.  At this rate, we'll be done before half the year is over.  Fantastic!  There's hope for me to play one of my favorites, "What Were You Thinking", before my birthday.  From the title, it could be surmised that it was not a big scoring weekend for me.  We started out believing it would be Heather's weekend for the following reasons:  Greg was super sick (running a fever and started on antibiotics on Sunday), Bob was nursing several hockey injuries, and I was exhausted from a week of late nights and caring for Hayden extra during Greg's illness.  It seemed more than logical that this was Heather's weekend to score big points!

Okay, let's get to the games.  We started out with Bohnanza, or the Bean Game as we fondly call it.  I love this game, and figured I could pull off a large number of coins with my plan to rule the crops with soy beans, black-eyed beans, and several large batches of stink beans!  Unfortunately for me, Bob, Heather, and Greg all got more coins than I did by planting lots of the ordinary beans.  Bob did very well with wax, chili, and the very elite cocoa beans and won the game with 25 coins!

We then spent more than a few minutes learning a new game, Canasta Caliente.  This was a brand new game for Greg and I, but only a little different for Bob and Heather.  Because of this, a boys versus girls team plan seemed fair.  Although I enjoyed the game a lot, Heather and I could not seem to add up many points with any of our cards.  Getting a canasta was very difficult for us!  We did have one round that helped Heather and I believe there was a shadow of a chance for us.  The next round the boys finished us off... beating us by over 1,000 points!  Ugh.  Loss number 2 for the girls.

Alright!  On to Carcassonne. Surely I can win one of those games, right?  I'll just work on a big farm, get myself in lots of cities, and bing, bang, boom, I get a big W by my name.  If only it was that easy...

[Until Jennifer has a chance to finish writing this post, we'll just say that the only W's that Jennifer managed to get in Carcassonne, Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers, and Carcassonne: The Castle were wishing, wondering, and weeping.]

Written by Jennifer