What better way to spend Christmas than with family? Working - not so much. That's how I spent Christmas last year, so I was very thankful to have several days off this year to spend time with the family. There's only 12 of us, and we always enjoy the time we have together. Us cousins are almost all grown up with real jobs making it hard to get time off to get together. Things got heated up Christmas Day with the award-winning (because people pick games based on awards) Dicecapades.
We are very competitive people - turning everything (sometimes unnecessarily) into a win or lose, do or die, braggin rights show down. We were all on a level playing field for this one because none of us had ever played Dicecapades before. The game includes lotsa dice rollin, picture drawin, trivia, knowledge, memory, and athleticism, and you've only got 30 seconds to do each task. My brother-in-law was winning before my uncle interrupted the game to open presents (how dare he). I'd recommend this for older crowds who want to use their brains and can follow all the different aspects and rules of the game. Once again, I added a new wine to the list. Walker red wine was a fine, medium-bodied, semi-dry wine (that's what the label said). Nothing special, nothing awful. My parents picked it out, which you might have guessed because it doesn't have a cool name or pretty bottle, which is how I choose mine.