Halloween and Ogre

This week have certainly been busy. We woke up Sunday morning with snow on the ground. That made me very happy that the kids helped me rake the leaves Saturday morning. Even thought it probably took longer for them to help me than for me to do it myself it was good to have them help. Afterwards we played Frisbee. Kanga can throw a decent disc and Tigger is learning. He had some good throws and also did a fair amount of running. It was nice. But I should probably also talk about Halloween, which happened earlier this week.

I wore a gee that I bought for Kung Fu back in college to work. I had to give some presentations and I saw that some of the students were dressed up too. Some asked me who I was. I said I was Po, from Kung Fu Panda (my gee is black and white) and that I just wasn't able to bulk up in time. One student thought I was Martin Luther - certainly one of my favorite historical figures, but he wore a robe, not a gee. The highlight of Halloween was having Muscles, Darpa and their kids over to have dinner with us before going trick-or-treating. All of their kids were dressed up as animals (with one plant). They had a tiger, a bat, a turtle, and a lily pad. Don't feel bad for the last one - She was born four months ago and looked really cute. All of their costumes were home made and looked good. Kanga and Tigger were dressed up in costumes from Smith's and they pulled them off rather well. Tigger forgot to put his hat on for the picture, but he had it ready when they hit the street. There were lots of kids out and about in our neighborhood. We've got a good street to go door to door - a fact that many summer sales people take advantage of. We had fun going around and between three adults we were able to keep the five kids in control (for the most part).

Saturday evening was our first ever Ogre night. The plan was to play the latest version of Steve Jackson's Ogre (version 6) with some friends and relations. The unfortunate thing was that the game hasn't arrived yet. It was a near thing with shipping in any case, but luckily we had a back up plan that worked rather well. We had my father, Leeroy, Tree, and my cousin, Mac, playing Star Wars Battlefront I. Like many LAN parties, it took us a while to get things set up, but it was a lot of fun when we had things up and running. Next month, we'll have Ogre and get able to enjoy some good board game fun.