I have had a love of board games since childhood. I love sitting around the table with interesting people while playing something new. (I won't lie...as a kid I would even set up all of the pieces and play alone if I had to). Love them. My mother would search and scour for new and unique ones. Every year at Christmas we would have a full day of adventure ahead as we would play with all of her new finds....right up until just a short bit ago. We still play games from time to time but nothing new has really come this way...
Until now. Mark was out for a visit and brought along some of his new faves. Turns out that he is a bit of a board game fan as well. We started with Forbidden Island. It was unique, challenging, interesting and wait for it....a team building exercise as well. What? A game NOT based on winning for yourself...dominating your opponent...smashing your enemy??!?!?! I couldn't believe it. It was all about working together to accomplish a goal. It made our brains work while we built strategies and problem solved together. We almost sunk into the waters of defeat but with a little thinking we made it off of the Forbidden Island safe and sound!!!
Oh and the game pieces...very cool and I'm a sucker for a cool game piece! Thanks to Mark for sharing with us!!!
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