For games night I played Agricola with Adam, Nick, Erik, and Erik’s guest. I ended up winning, but wasn’t able to use most of the advantages I had for most of the game. The best thing I got was that every time I took a wheat I got to plow a field. I used this five times, but didn’t get to sow until round 10 or so. I was still able to get a lot of points off of the crops, and at the last minute got a fence around the empty land to stay off the major negative from having open land. I really enjoyed it, but would prefer to have 3 people, for speed and placement’s sake.
Lana and Archer have been so cute lately. They have been really good, and I’m getting them a running water bowl. They have been cuddling and sleeping curled up together. Lana also was having a dream that I caught on video.
Tina, Amit, Steph, Iliya, and I played some poker last night. With no money on the line I played it extremely risky, and not much of that payed off. I really wanted to get into “Fantasy Land,” but that didn’t turn out as hoped. Iliya was getting incredibly lucky and playing it safe, so he turned out way on top. I really like the game, and might make it into an app.
On Tuesday Steph and I went over to Jeremy’s to play some Rock Band. Brian and Chris also joined us. It was a fun evening, and I was able to do some expert mode for the first time. I am still really bad at it, but it is to the point where I can have fun doing it. Jeremy had his dip out, and as usual we ate way too much of it. It is hard to resist.
Steph and I cooked up some delicious Tom Yom, then went to Brian’s pool party. The party was enjoyable and very relaxed. We talked with a lot of people about a lot of things, got some time in the pool and hot tub, then left to grab dinner at Zeni’s. The food was good as always, and I ate too much as always. We then headed back to Beachhead where we watched the finale to the season of Game of Thrones. We then played a couple rounds of Race for the Galaxy before heading to bed.
Adam, Tina, Iliya, Brian, and I played some games. We did a 5 person game of Tzolk’in, with the tribes included. I was the group that started with 5 people instead of 3, but I lost due to inability to feed. I did have a great time building 4 of the monuments, but it didn’t make up the point difference. I’ll have to do a game where I spent the whole time trying to get the gods to love me.
After that we did a game that was based on poker, but it didn’t have the same dynamics. The game was too readily meta-gamable and the meta game wasn’t much fun. After a few hands we decided to call it a day.
Iliya and Brian left, so we had a game of 3 for Race for the Galaxy. Tina had a great first game with a rebel build that turned out really well. Then I had a phenomenal game in the second game scoring 91 points and getting 17 prestige.
Steph and I met Jeremy at the Chocolate Garage and had some decent chocolate. We got some of the ones we really like, but didn’t get any of the new ones. We also stopped by the Cladio chocolates and got a few boxes. One of the boxes Steph is giving to her parents, since they asked for it. We also grabbed the ingredients for some Tom Yom soup and plan to make it tomorrow morning. It should be tasty.
Steph and I met a lot of people at San Pedro Square Market for Brian’s 30th. We had dinner before going, so we only got an ice cream sandwich. It was very tasty. We talked with people when we could hear. A somewhat jazzy band was playing and had the speakers turned up way too loud. They weren’t particularly good, and I could hardly understand what the singer was saying. Her voice was good, but the diction was terrible. I ended up getting a headache from the music, but the 
rest of the evening was nice.
This was a great ending to a wonderful series. Alliances that were formed and the final fight were excellent. I especially enjoyed the wakening of the great furies to finish off the Vord queen. There were a few loose ends that came up, like what happened to the great furies after they finished the Vord queen, or where the original group of Vord were that caused the Marat to come to Alera. I would love for another series in this universe.
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