Sweet Saturday

Yesterday was an amazing day. While I did not get some peaceful resting time that Blu enjoyed, I had a blast. The One and I met up with BoBo for a nice lunch at a local Chinese buffet. There he accused the two of us of leaving money attached to his door. We assure him it was not us. After lunch we headed to a fair that had a few interesting sales stands. The One picked up a zebra print scarf and we scored 1200 thread-count sheets.

After that jaunt through the fair, it was time to run from zombies. BoBo instantly was into the game as our day's first navigator. He wanted to investigate the whereabouts of his other suspect in the money caper, TeeHee, so the course was plotted for TeeHee's house. To our amazement, TeeHee was at home. He had told BoBo that he was out of town when the money would have been placed, and had returned only a few hours before we met up with him. I was working with Zombie, Run! to find more interesting variations. Without thinking I selected a destination just down the block from where we were. Suddenly we were surrounded by zombies. There was no hesitation as we all raced into the vehicle and drove off for safety.

We played a few more rounds; one of our destinations brought us to B12, much to his surprise. He certainly was not expecting the four of us to drive up to his house and then rush out of the car and into his neighbor's yard as he came out to greet us. B12 was nice enough to entertain our intrusion, and the four of us thanked him. Unfortunately, he had much to take care of and was unable to join us in our quest for survival. That would be his demise as the very next round he himself turned into a zombie.

After a few more thrilling rounds, we decided that we should go and play some games for the evening. BoBo brought up poker, and everyone agreed it would be fun. Four hours later, I was on top of the money pile grinning. Granted I was quite the river rat, hitting trip jacks and a king high flush on the river for large sums of money. The last of which was about a third of the entire chip count. Out of $40 possible dollars in chips, I had $23 by the game's end. I was very proud of The One, who held her own throughout the night. She was even chip leader and bullying the pots for a good portion of the four hours.

After poker we decided to relax with Cranium. Quite a fun game indeed. We played three rounds, swapping partners each time. The absurdity of people's actions, drawings, sculpting and humming was quite a delightful way to end the night. We were all victorious as the night grew to a close; our victories built on laughter and good company. We are blessed to have each other in our lives.

The lone loss was only minor, I had wanted someone to use the spare bedroom that has long gone empty on these crazy nights. The room stayed empty as BoBo and TeeHee both had to be somewhere this morning. A sleepover will happen. Games and conversations in the dark are not far off I imagine. We might be too old for this to be considered normal, but I never have a problem bringing out the little kid in me.

~Skate