so... we started our monopoly game last saturday. with only 2 of us it went fairly quickly to get several properties bought. (growing up my family always played you had to go around the board once before you could buy, but will and i decided to have everything fair game from the beginning) so we went on our spending spree for several turns each, hoping for "good" properties... i don't know how it happened, i suppose i was a little wiser with my money : ), but will was hurting... so i let him catch up (winning a truck load of money from free parking - which evidently the rules state that that space is not for winning money, but for "resting"... boring... : ) so of course that was the "traditional" jackpot spot) well, i soon wished i hadn't played so easy on him because before too long he had tons of money! thousands more than me!
now, this game went on for 5 days... we'd play a little each evening (most evenings... not all) and it sat out on the coffee table each day for us to think and strategize.. : ) sometimes we'd just have discussions about what deals we might make with each other... it all hinged on st. charles place! that was the last property to be bought... it took until last night! each time one of us would come up on it we'd count how many we'd need to roll to land on it... either that, or free parking, which we knew had not a truck load this time, but a boat load... more like an ocean liner load... well, i ended up getting st. charles place, and by that time, neither of us cared so much about the "deals" we could do... (because at that point none were in will's favor.. : ) and much to my sadness... will soon after got free parking... it ended up being 1999... that's nearly 2000 dollars!!! and he took forever counting it... : ) haha well, at this point, never mind the fact that i had 3 monopolies, all with houses... they were the wimpy ones (light blue, pink, and red - red's not too bad).... with a house on a light blue all you get is 30... lame... by this time will had the corner by "go to jail." whatever those colors are... yellow and green. so he had a death row corner for me (which he had 2-3 houses on everything over there!) that i luckily kept missing... : ) (even jail was better than paying 800-1000!) well.. eventually i landed on him and owed him 900 or so... i had to clear all my houses from two of my monopolies! not long after, i owed 800some, so i cleared the other houses... : ) next time i had to start mortgaging things... and on my last turn i believe i owed 1000 and i had to mortgage everything else i had!! i was only able to offer 852, a get out of jail free, and my humble little iron piece... : ) will won.... there's always next time... : )
we had tons of fun and love monopoly!! probably the play by play of our game wasn't very exciting... but we're having such a fun summer! we're not necessarily in the butchart gardens, but it's fun to be in a new place having new experiences. there are plenty of neat things down here and we should enjoy them while we're here... and best of all, we just work during the day, and have fun and relax in the evenings and on weekends! no homework for us : ) it's a little harder to relax when our smoke alarm is going off... but we'll hopefully get all that figured out eventually.. : ) if nothing else, it is just for the summer... : )
we have tons of fun plans for the weekend and it's will's birthday tomorrow! : )
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