Gloomhaven

We have some friends that wanted to play a board game and wondered if we'd be interested in playing with them.   We said sure.   They warned us it would be a long game.   We said that was okay.   They said meaning multiple sessions.   We said we were still in.   

Today, we found out what the full meaning of, "a long game" meant when we went to their house while Nana watched the children (and singlehandedly entertained the children while at the same time managing to clean and tidy our house, leaving it in a far, far better state than when she arrived) while we played this board game for five hours. 

We made it past the very beginning.   The game we're playing introduces the concepts of the game level by level because there is so much complexity it's too much to take in all at once.   And the game we're playing is the introduction game to the actual game, which is another who knows how many hours of time necessary to complete. 

We had fun seeing their game room and learning about the games they've been playing plus just talking about this and that while we played.   If we had focused completely on the game and nothing else we would have gotten farther along, but that wasn't the complete point.  We wanted to do something together and play the game at the same time. 

We're going to schedule the next round of the game, Gloomhaven, the "toddler" edition it felt like given how little we knew at the start, as soon as we can sync up schedules.

The Big Boy Update:  My son is in bed.  It is after eleven o'clock.   Funny songs are starting to play out of my Alexa beside the computer.   He is making jokes two floors up, it would seem. 

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter got us all to take a neighborhood bike ride just before dark tonight.  She and her father on their double bike with her in the back and my son and me on our bikes.   It was a short ride, but it was a lot of fun.