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 Thursday, March 25, 2004

Julie's mom Jan was in town for most of the week, which is spring break for the kids.  Papa David also arrived in town today, and Jan/David headed for the coast for an overnight stay.  Tomorrow morning I head to Malaysia and China for about a week for some business travel.  I'm taking the new camera with me so needed to empty the pictures off the memory card.  Here are some of the results!

Matthew teaches grandma Jan how to play Balloon Cup.


One of Matthew's favorite pastimes - lounging on the recliner while watching a soap opera.

I recently picked up a copy of Union Pacific from my friend KC - a remake of the great game Airlines that I was able to play about a year ago with Doug and Mimi.  We are all very fond of these stock acquisition games (very reminiscent of Acquire), so this was a winner.  Jacob gives it a 9, Matthew an 8.

Jacob and Matthew learning Union Pacific.

posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 1:08:38 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [2]
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Friday, March 26, 2004 4:33:05 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I too played Union Pacific last weekend, the first game in ages. It's certainly a keeper, being such a simple but captivating game. It has an interesting ratio of board size to board usefulness... I should try it some day without using the board; I think it wouldn't really change the game. When we played, everyone could build exactly what they wanted, so the board limitations didn't have any effect on the game.
Friday, March 26, 2004 11:54:34 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
That's an interesting point - it seems when I played Airlines, there was much more of a struggle to lay out routes than in UP. In our game yesterday, everybody could build where they wanted to as long as they had the right track. Perhaps with more experienced players more blocking occurs.
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