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This year was an epic one. THIS was the year my family took part in a Pictionary tournament with White Elephant toiletry prizes. That may not sound like a big deal, but we rarely do anything like that and the bondsmanship created through the activity was terrific.
We each had to draw a Christmas word or phrase from a hat and draw it. Each team had one minute to guess what the phrase was, but one minute turned out to be plenty, and the game ended in a complete tie. (The hardest phrase was "sweater weather," which had to be depicted with a sweater, a sun and a cloud. I had to draw "stocking" which took about three seconds from whiteboard to correct guess.
Because the game ended in a tie, neither side won the privilege to draw first from the White Elephant bag, so a different set of mechanics was set up: everyone drew a number. When your number came up, you had two choices: pick an item from the bag, or steal someone else's item. We were talking things like Q-Tips and tissue boxes, so it wasn't much of a loss -- until the bag of chocolates was found, and the stealing back and forth truly began.
The loudest reaction to a present came from Alexa, who opened a box to find a water bottle inside with the image of a Fire Emblem Three Houses character on it. I have not played this game but evidently "Luenn Hevering" is a big deal (I know I got that wrong, I'm going off her pronunciation). Nothing even remotely close to this name comes up on Google:
List of characters in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Alexa also just got a Playstation 4 and of those three games, she's diving into Dragon Quest XI first. Wonder what kind of water bottles are out there for DQ.
Top it all off with a concert! My cousin wired my uncle's violin to some kind of complicated whammy bar that turned its notes into all sorts of sounds. With this you can make a violin sound like a harmonica, bagpipes or an electric guitar. Hearing a violin shred metal is an interesting experience. I'm really tempted to upload the video.
Now share YOUR Christmas Tales! Immediately!
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This year was an epic one. THIS was the year my family took part in a Pictionary tournament with White Elephant toiletry prizes. That may not sound like a big deal, but we rarely do anything like that and the bondsmanship created through the activity was terrific.
We each had to draw a Christmas word or phrase from a hat and draw it. Each team had one minute to guess what the phrase was, but one minute turned out to be plenty, and the game ended in a complete tie. (The hardest phrase was "sweater weather," which had to be depicted with a sweater, a sun and a cloud. I had to draw "stocking" which took about three seconds from whiteboard to correct guess.
Because the game ended in a tie, neither side won the privilege to draw first from the White Elephant bag, so a different set of mechanics was set up: everyone drew a number. When your number came up, you had two choices: pick an item from the bag, or steal someone else's item. We were talking things like Q-Tips and tissue boxes, so it wasn't much of a loss -- until the bag of chocolates was found, and the stealing back and forth truly began.
The loudest reaction to a present came from Alexa, who opened a box to find a water bottle inside with the image of a Fire Emblem Three Houses character on it. I have not played this game but evidently "Luenn Hevering" is a big deal (I know I got that wrong, I'm going off her pronunciation). Nothing even remotely close to this name comes up on Google:
List of characters in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Black Eagles. Edelgard. Hubert. Ferdinand. Linhardt. Caspar. Bernadetta. Dorothea. Petra.
- Blue Lions. Dimitri. Dedue. Felix. Ashe. Sylvain. Mercedes. Annette. Ingrid.
- Golden Deer. Claude. Lorenz. Raphael. Ignatz. Lysithea. Marianne. Hilda. Leonie.
- Church of Seiros. Seteth. Flayn. Hanneman. Manuela. Gilbert. Alois. Catherine. Shamir. Cyril.
Alexa also just got a Playstation 4 and of those three games, she's diving into Dragon Quest XI first. Wonder what kind of water bottles are out there for DQ.
Top it all off with a concert! My cousin wired my uncle's violin to some kind of complicated whammy bar that turned its notes into all sorts of sounds. With this you can make a violin sound like a harmonica, bagpipes or an electric guitar. Hearing a violin shred metal is an interesting experience. I'm really tempted to upload the video.
Now share YOUR Christmas Tales! Immediately!
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