The day started a little later than I wanted to (12:45) but it wasn't all that bad. As I waited for Chris to arrive, I popped in Vanilla Sky and started watching it with director's commentary. Chris arrived and offhand mentioned the Arkham Asylum Batman demo...which I've played (and enjoyed) on the PS3. I mentioned Dante's Inferno and invited Chris to play the DEMO, which he did. I think he enjoyed it, but his quote was "That is a game I think I'd like to watch while someone else plays it". The graphics are simply STUNNING as the 9 circles of hell are rendered incredibly...
After that we decided to play a new game board of Power Grid to kick off the weekend. The board for Portugal/Spain with it's section of ???no nukes??? area intrigued me and Chris agreed to play on that board. It was a nice game of back and forth with me attempting to cause Chris grief by causing an oil shortage, with him just deftly stepping aside and purchasing a replacement plant so that my shortage didn't inconvenience him at all! In the end, we could power the exact same amount of cities, but having more cash in the end gave me the victory!!
From there we decided to play St. Petersburg. It was a very cool game with me being a bit rusty and making a few poor choice. Chris made some very good moves and utilized the pub brilliantly and came up with 10 unique nobles which was enough to win the game by...3 points!!! VERY nice finish.
From there Chris brought out Galaxy Trucker. Don't know why, but the pressure of time and trying to make the best ship gets to me and I never do a good job of it. Well...last night was the exception! I made it to port on EVER SINGLE trip. On my first trip, however, I had a horrible meteor strike that took off ½ my ship. Good thing I had the Max 8 cent insurance policy!!! I lost that game by...3 points.
We played pirateer and gammon over dinner at KFC, I believe Chris won at gammon and we traded games of Pirateer...
We decided it was time to relax for the evening and watch ???Class of 1984??? which is a violent movie about a School teacher that goes into a really tough school and has run-ins with the students of a gang there. VERY cool. Not sure what Chris' thoughts were.
RING....RING...who the heck is calling at 6:57am??? ???Hullo...
? It was Mac. He had just dropped his cousin at the airport and was ready to come over. I said, we'll be ready for your and got Chris up and hopped in the shower. We had enough time to grab breakfast before Mac showed up at the front door.
We spent 2.5 hours reading through the instructions and learning to play Twilight Imperium and then we played until 3pm when my victory was imminent and we had to break up the party. As that game is Chris' game, I'll allow him to post about that...but it was fun. I would like to play it again!!