A Night At Home In The Dark

Well we had some nasty thunderstorms roll through the other night.  We were without power for almost 5 hours.  Normally this isn’t a big deal but the kids were being especially restless and bored stiff.  Like always during such an event we all scrambled for the flashlights and candles to help light up the house a bit.  Since there really wasn’t anything to do I suggested we play monopoly.  I was shocked to find out my kids had never played it.  I know kids today have the internet playstation and all sorts of electronic games to occupy their time but really never played monopoly.  I asked my wife how this was possible and she said they had plenty of board games but have never really played any of them and many are still unopened in their original wrappings.  Wow what a waste of money those Christmas gifts were.  Anyway after explaining the rules and going over the game details we sat down as a family and had a great time playing monopoly.  We even pulled out a few other board games including clue, life, stratego and good old Chinese checkers.  The kids I must say had a really good time playing board games and were quite surprised at how much fun they were.  I was really excited when I saw my daughter looking up different board games online today after school.  She found a great site with all kinds of board game review  s and has since started playing many of the old games in our closets.