ROAD TRIPPIN'

 Back in the day before portable DVD players and Ipads all we had to entertain ourselves on long trips was playing games and singing songs.  We've given up singing songs together because that would just be awkward but we do still play games.  As Nathan, Emily, and I made our way to Florida last week we decided to play a game to help pass the time.  We call it the Alphabet game and we choose a  topic and taking turns starting at A try to guess answers in alphabetical order.  If you can't guess on your letter then you get a strike, three strikes and you're out.  We chose the topic "Countries" and let Emily go first.

"Africa" she guessed.
"That's a continent" Nathan informed her. We laughed.
Strike one for Emily.
Botswana was Nathan's answer and I followed with Canada.
Now it was Emily's turn to answer for D.
"Delaware"  she quickly answered "oh wait, that's a state right? " I almost drove off the road.
Strike two for Emily
Nathan then guessed a country for D, me for E and so forth until we got to I.  It was Emily's turn.
"Islam!" she called out quite proud of herself.  Nathan and I fell into fits of laughter at this point.
Strike three, she was done.
Trying to cheer her up I said "It's okay Emily, Nathan finds stupid sexy."
"Stupidsexy?" she asked. "What does that mean?"
I could hardly stay on the road.


I was only allowed to tell  this story on the condition that I point out that it was very late at night, and we were all tired when this transpired. In her defense, Emily is normally an extremely intelligent young woman and even late at night she is a very good sport.

5 SECOND RULE

I bet you think this post will be about food that has fallen to the floor and how long it can sit there before being deemed inedible.  In our house that 5 second rule can run into the 5 day rule depending on the age of the eater.  Personally, I wouldn't eat anything that fell on my floor because I know how often (or little) it gets cleaned.

Tonight we played a new game called 5 Second Rule.  It's a fast paced game where you are asked to name three things in a given category and you have 5 seconds to do it.   We had some good laughs as we played.  I'm a little concerned that Brittany and Emily do not know what a prime number is nor what a preposition is but they can be forgiven because like I said, it's pretty fast paced and had they been given half a minute to think about it they would have remembered.  The funniest moments of the night though came at Emily's expense.  When asked to name three countries in the northern hemisphere she quickly called out  Canada, USA, Europe.  Later in the game Brittany's category was professional basketball players. Steve Nash, Michael Jordan, and Jimmer were her answers.  Unimpressed, Emily asked Brittany "Yeah, but what's his first name?"
"I don't know." replied Brittany.
"Jimmer" I said "His first name is Jimmer."

*Emily is much smarter than I have made her out to be.