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PROMPT January 13th In your entry today, write about games! Board games, video games, card games, sports games, mind games, etc... Share a memorable story. I love board games. And card games. And so does everyone else in my family. So, we are never bored and always have something to pass the time. We've played hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of board games and card games. Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk, Canasta, Rummy, Casino, and just about every other game out there. I remember one summer I was staying with my sister. Her husband was in the Navy and was stationed at Coronado Island in California. They rented a little tiny house very near the beach. Oh my gosh, Coronado is beautiful and the weather is perfect most of the time. Anyway, her husband was at sea and she stayed behind with their two little girls. Just a bit of background information here...my sister is 13 years older than me. She's number two child of six, and I'm number five child of six. So at this time she was a young navy wife and mother, and I was just finishing up high school. My parents thought it would be a good idea for me to stay with her. Help take care of the girls. Help out when needed. Scope out the university. Things like that. They also thought it would be a good idea for my sister to enroll her two girls in day camp. Give them something to do during the summer. Give my sister a break. Give us time to scope out the university. See a theme here? It was mostly about the university. So everything is set and my parents send me off to Coronado for a summer adventure. Let me say right here that I love San Diego and I love Coronado and I love the beach and everything about the beach. So you would think I spent time at the beach. Right? Well...not exactly. One foggy morning (yes, there's tons of fog in San Diego in the summer, although it burns off by noon) we dropped off the girls and made our way back to her little tiny house that was within walking distance of the beach. We donned swimsuits and grabbed towels but it was just too cold and too foggy. We had to wait for the sun to come out. We sat looking at each other and then my sister asked if I like to play cards. Heck yeah! And then she asked if I knew how to play Canasta. Heck yeah! So she challenged me to a game. Just until the sun came out. Heck yeah! So we played. She won a game. Then I won a game. Then she won again. And then I won again. And with each game we got more competitive. And then we were in an all out battle to see who would be the ultimate champion! Heck yeah! It was a ton of fun! Time passed. And more time passed. And even more time passed. And then...it was time to go get the girls! We never made it to the beach! But we didn't care because we had so much fun. And for that entire summer we never made it to the beach. We literally spent the entire summer playing Canasta. And even though I love the beach I have absolutely no regrets that I never made it to the beach. All because we waited for the sun to come out. |
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