Game Night

Last night we hosted game night in our home. However, we only ended up playing a game that we all got hooked on in Costa Rica.  Phase 10. After working hard in construction on the Abraham Project in Costa Rica, in the evenings after we had dinner and devotion time, we would break out various games to play together. This was a game we kept coming back to. I've been told its like Rummy. Ive never played Rummy so I don't know. Basically, each player's goal is to complete and lay down the current phase, and then rid their hand of remaining cards by discarding them on laid-down Phases, called "hitting". The player who does this first wins the hand and scores no penalty; all other players earn penalty points according to the value of cards remaining in their hand. This can go on for hours as folks try to keep their scores low and complete their phases. We played until almost 11pm last night. We invited over all the folks that were part of our late night group in Costa Rica. We laughed, teased,  and updated each other on our lives since the trip. The winner most of the time while we were in Costa Rica, was not able to be with us last night as we attempted to pick up where we left off. We missed you Nikkita!

So now we have a new winner and she can hold that title til we meet again! Yay for Yolanda! (funny thing was she had dubbed Brian her little good luck gnome and had him sit with her for several hands until she got the hang of it.) Throughout the evening if he walked off she started losing, it was funny. Near the end of the game, we all took turns rubbing "the little gnome" for good luck!

For Nikki : the gameisms last night were:

the BOB tattoo (explanation later)

and

"I'm collecting 12's"

"pass the Twizzlers"

and also

"these twizzlers aren't sour"

"can we use 2 skip cards as a set?"

and lets not forget

"Strategically speaking..I have to skip you"