Saturday, August 5, 2017

VM Family Game Day

Even with all the amazing outings and adventures, one of my other favorite things that we did on our vacation was intentionally stay home for a day of grand competition!  The VM Family Game Day had...

Board games


(Have to include this hilarious drawing of one of Ella's Telestrations rounds.  It had us rolling!  "Jerk Chicken"!   Not quite as funny as the "skinny dipping" that became "Jesus calling his disciples", though! GET THIS GAME if you don't already have it!)

Rock Band


A fishing competition, where every kid broke exactly even with one catch each, all fish the same size!


And a bocce ball tournament.


The grand finale was a little trip to the laser tag place where we adults teamed up and promised our children a good beating!  As we were loading up the cars, I snagged the above picture of an impromptu cousin conga line.  Kris cracked us up by quipping, "Nooooo!  Their team is already synchronized!"


Laser Tag was at the top of the "Most Fun Things We Did" list!  Though we parents had the utmost confidence, the kid team had 2 secret weapons: Miles, who is so tiny he'd sneak up on you and tag you every time, and Calvin, who is so tall he looks like an adult in the dark and would give us all pause every time we tried to shoot him!


As you can see, the Kid Team (red) did end up creaming their old folks.  I won't revel my alias, but just say it is not one of the blue ones at the top.  Already planning a rematch in 2019! ;)

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