Family Fun Friday

Another week another round of Family Fun Friday.  And finally some great weather to do it in.  Unfortunately, Signe was sick so we had to be creative at home.  So we let her pick our dinner, our dessert, and our night's activity.

Her choices:

Homemade spaghetti dinner with "ranch bread" (because I make french bread with ranch dressing mix in butter spread on French bread).

Homemade confetti cupcakes that they could help make.

A round of monopoly.

The fun started around four o'clock with the cupcake making and decorating.

Then Rob arrived home in time to help make dinner.  And I don't think I have ever tasted better spaghetti sauce. YUM.  We added a salad from our abundant rows of lettuce in the garden.

But before we could eat our dinner the signal of summer was sounded. . . .

THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!

And the girls ran out the door in their bare feet to catch the first taste of summer. . . after a mad dash to alert the neighbors.

Signe was the first to catch a glimpse of it coming around the corner. . . long after its pied piper tune lured us all outside.

Nothing like a little ice cream appetizer!

The real entertainment was monopoly.  It is always an adventure.  Rob and Signe paired up to make a ferocious team.  Their goal was to buy one of every property so they could then sell them at highly inflated rates to Hannah and me for a tidy profit.  They called themselves the slum tyrants.  Then they decided they should actually be the slum pirates--to which Signe piped up with:

"Oh, oh, let's be the slum pirate PRINCESSES!"  Of course.

The REAL pirate, however, was the little thief who kept swiping money and property whenever someone left them too close to the edge of the table!

After a while Princess Signe deflected to organizing the hotels and houses for sale and Charly joined Rob's team.  He cleaned up his act, and started doing legitimate business.

I, despite my fair play, ended up in prison, not ONE, not TWO, but SEVEN TIMES!

See those little get out of jail free cards? Those are Rob's.  He never needed them.  He offered to sell them to me after my second incarceration but I told him I didn't think I would need them, because who goes to jail three times in one game?  I guess I do. . .  times two.

We finally abandoned the game around 9:30, and while Hannah had gone bankrupted and I was nearly cashless, I like to think I might have won. After all I had this little gem that would have cost you 1,400 should you have the misfortune to visit.

And since I spent so much time in jail I rarely had time to visit any hotels.  So maybe we have all been playing this game wrong all along.  Next time I am trying to go to jail more often. . . of course planning something only makes it less likely to happen in my experience.