Call to Adventure at Our House

... the 3 morning gamers ...

... Michael is studying the adults at play ....

... Duncan makes a good play ...

... what shall I do with this piece ...

... Duncan reaches for the rules ...

... I may have trapped you, sir ...

... a good play ....

... a full belly laugh can't be contained ...

... thoughtful gamer ....

Only Duncan and Doral were ready to begin gaming this morning, Duncan pulling out Call to Adventure” a starter game which Doral had purchased, although it is now in the store for everyone to buy.

Rebecca was asleep in the other room.

When she heard the word “game” in her subconscious sleep she called out that she was ready to play.

She was at the table in 5 minutes, long before the game was fully unpacked.

The three of them spent the morning playing Call to Adventure, enjoying the imaginative aspect of the journey and stopping the game to come to me, sharing the beauty of the game cards.

“Even if one doesn’t like gaming, just sitting and looking at the art of the cards would be enough,” Duncan said.

Doral is a master at keeping a game going.

He knows the rules so there is not the downtime of someone having to check on what the cards do or how many tokens people need.

Seven year old Michael is dying to get into the game, but it is too complicated for him.

He is only allowed to sit at the table and listen to the banter that goes on between the adults.

Michael does quietly practise the turns of phrases that they use.

He sit for a while, stands for a while, circles the kitchen island and then takes his clipboard over to the table and sits down again to see what he can glean from sitting close to them.

He knows he is not allowed to speak to the players or to interrupt – a hard task for him.

The game ends at noon, just in time for left-over taco salad from last night.

“I made 8 avocados into guacamole dip last night and there is none left?”

Doral turns his statement into a quasi-question when he tried to make his salad.

He even drives to Salmon Arm that evening to buy 6 more avocados for tonight’s dinner which is taco salad again.

No one complains about 2 nights in a row, it is so delicious.

Doral doesn’t get to eat it though, as Teague and Trent have come over to try some of Doral’s new games and so Doral joins them instead of eating.

Doral lost his glasses this morning and no one could find them until Rebecca joined the hunt.

The question in her mind was, “What would Arta be doing that would hide Doral’s glasses.”

The answer is, I was putting away all of the electronic chords that she had left on the counter last night and Doral’s glasses had been sitting there mixed in with them.

I had swooped everything in that area of the counter into a bag and set it aside.

And Rebecca figured that out, so Doral as able to at least see during his morning, afternoon and evening gaming holiday.

What is up for tomorrow?

New games, I hope, for Duncan’s dream holiday is to play all of Doral’s games at least once.

Arta