Labour Weekend Wrap-up

Labour day weekend has come and gone and that means the kids have gone back to school. The Kids are happy for now but I know that the happiness will turn to loathing as the homework begins to pile up. The parents are happy but that will wain to mediocrity as the 100th sandwich of the school year is made. So in celebration of the annual tradition of sending the little ones back to school I played board games.

Friday night saw Andrew and Dave crash my place for some good conversation, food and gaming. We started the evening with a game of Quarriors!! and then wrapped it up with a game of Star Trek: Expeditions. Expeditions is fast becoming a favorite of mine more because Star Trek was my gateway to Sci-Fi than the game being any good (though it is). I got the opportunity to play Bones only because Scotty is not available in the base game. Either way it was fun and we solved the problem on Nimbia so all was good in the End.

I was invited on Sunday to play board games so of course I went. We played a total of 4 games over 12 hours which is so very amazing in my books. We played Cyclades, St Petersburg, Age of Mythology and Incan Gold. All were fun games, but the two holdouts for the best of the day were St. Petersburg and Incan Gold with the latter game being my only win of the day.

On Monday, the family and I sat down to tackle Agricola. This is a hard game to win so my younger kids grew bored quickly much more interested in played house with the farmer pieces than actually playing the game. In the end it was still fun and I will pull it out again to see how much they remember.

Now begins the wait until this weekend to play more games again. At least it is a short work week.