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Old 02-25-2007, 08:17 PM   #16
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Hope you made it out of there unscathed, Rachel!

I don't think we've played a board game since this summer. We tend to lean towards playing different types of card games.
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Old 02-25-2007, 09:08 PM   #17
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I believe it was Thanksgiving day. I played the Magic Kingdom game with my Younger niece and nephew
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I'm not a big board game person. I was the banker for a killer Monopoly game on a family vacation last July.
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Well, me personally it has been awhile. DD11 belongs to a Scrabble Club through our home ed group. She does this every other week. DD18 has been helping them out. We have tons of games but have not been playing here at home, we need to get back into it.
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I survived. Once Monopoly was over we were searching for other games to play, and my brother suggested "Stress Out" and "Family Argument. " Instead we watched POTC2.
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.. We love board games but it seems that Monopoly brings out the worst in everyone in my family & usually ends up in a screaming match. Might be because Jim grabs up all the good property ASAP & then gloats & lords it over it ( guess i'm not 'over' the last Monopoly game huh )
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We were playing Disney Clue at Christmas. I love board games but my DH doesn't.

I reminded my brother of the time when we were kids (I must have been 4 or 5) and I got mad at him while we were playing Sorry. He landed on my piece and sent me back home with a "sorry". I got so mad and stormed upstairs to tell mom because I just knew he wasn't Sorry at all!
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