Lucky Lab

Chris loves to play board games, and tonight he took us along to the Lucky Lab Brew Pub where gamers meet on Thursday evenings to play and drink beer. We played Lifeboats with three other players. One of them was Andrew, a library colleague of Chris's. I unexpectedly won! The game play is all decided by negotiation and voting, and it's best if everyone approaches it with a lighthearted touch. I think my main skill was keeping a low profile. Next we played a couple of rounds of Transamerica, with Ken winning the first and Andrew winning the second. It was 10 p.m., and we agreed that we'd like to play one more game that would take about an hour. Chris chose Carcasonne--which ended up taking two hours. Ken won again.

We drove Chris home. Since it was late and we were coming back in the morning we decided that Sweetie could spend the night, and we dropped Andrew and his sister Barbara off on the way home. (It came out the next day that Chris had let Sweetie sleep with him, which didn't exactly make his cat Phoebe very happy.)