First off, Glen and I played a card game called Magic. It's a strategy war type of game but with cards instead of a computer. I guess he's been collecting these cards for the past couple of weeks and has enough for a couple of decent decks. I especially enjoyed playing it just because I use to be WAY into those kind of fantasy lands and creatures. I will briefly describe it the elements and purpose of the game.
You are a Planes walker, a powerful wizard who uses Mana (Magic) to summon Creatures to the battlefield to fight your battles for you.
There are 5 different types of Mana: Black for the Swamplands, White for the Pla
ins, Blue for the Islands, Green for the Forest, and Red for the Mountains. Not only can you Summon Creatures to the battlefield, but can perform enchantments and incantations to strengthen your forces. The more mana you gain, the more powerful the creature you can call upon to fight your battles, according to the luck of the draw. Strategy is of the utmost importance.Glen and I played this for about a good hour before moving on to the outdoors. And oh, what fun we had in the Snow!
We bundled up and prepared to face the outdoors in our new awesome coats we got for Christmas. Last year, Glen got us these hats so that we could be twinners. He calls it his Adventure hat, because he's always going on adventures with it on.
As for the outdoors, we built ourselves a nice and tall snowman. Just like us! As we put the head on, we both realized he kind of had facial features, and so we went to work defining the rest of his features. We are very proud of our own little Parson Brown. We especially enjoyed making the nose and the ear.As we were busy defining his features, Dad came over and placed a black potting bucket on his head for a cap. We both thought it was a most genius idea! And to finish him off, we gave him a couple of shoulders... twigs for arms and a snow shovel for further character. :-)
Then, Glen and I started building a snow fort!
After about 20 minutes of building or so, Dad came over and started building his own. Apparently two can play at this game. ;-)A couple hours later, both of our fortresses were completed and we made up a bunch of snowballs and had an extremely fun snowball fight. Dad and Glen totally ganged up on me and dominated! Halfway through the fight, Glen came running out from behind Dad's wall and Kamakazied me with a couple of direct hits at about a 2 foot distance. So much for the safety of a wall! Ha ha ha. I do believe it was the funnest Christmas I've had in a very long time.
