Pre-pandemic I loved Wednesdays. It was my short day whenever I would sub – usually for Coffenberry. The staff there would work with me on my schedule. The third Wednesday was the day that seniors could meet up at Roseburg cinema to watch a featured movie. It was cool to have sponsors which made that possible.
Though I enjoyed the opportunity of seeing movies for free on the third Wednesday, I looked forward to the second Wednesday of each month. That is when the ward offered a pot luck luncheon. Afterward there was a group of us that would hang around and play games for an hour or two. Though I enjoyed the luncheon itself, I enjoyed the games even more.
Pre-pandemic we had scheduled nights
to play with different couples in our ward or sometimes we would invite my
friend, Carol. When we would play in
teams, it was usually her and Roland against Jenna and me – not always but quite
a bit. We had even tried to set up a
game night with a couple who had just moved into our work only one or two weeks
before the stay-at-home order was given.
Thus fourteen months later we finally set up a game night but made it a
night to eat dinner first – which I don’t think is necessary but Roland thinks
he needs to feed anybody and everybody who happens to drop by.
We decided to have it at their home
as they have a lot more room and we wouldn’t have to feel crowded. She made the dinner and Roland ended up
making the dessert as mine had failed.
We’d taken out a handful of cards – at least one per game we had brought
and asked which they would like to play.
Any sounded good and Roland ALWAYS wants to play Baulderdash and so we
numbered the boxes and picked the first game that way.
After dinner we ended up playing a
partial game of Whatzit and then played a game of Baulderdash. We are hoping for another night (or regular
set up) to play the two plus games that we hadn’t played (or even brought with
us) on Thursday night. I think we need
to cut out the food so that we have more time to play games without cutting
into anyone’s sleep schedule. We may
have overstayed our welcome. I hope
not.
It was fun for Jenna and I to play our
party games with other people and not just her and I. Pre-pandemic we had even played games with
the missionaries on occasion. We have missed playing games.
