Party just to party

Whoever said “He who fails to plan, plans to fail” must not have had many impromptu parties. Tuesday night we decided we should have a party on Friday night and invite a few of the teachers Crystal works with. Wednesday morning she sent out and email to get the ball rolling. Thursday we stopped by Costco for food and drinks and did a quick clean and vacuum job at the house. Not a ton of preparation, no invitations months in advance and no extensive menu to plan. We have a house, music and beer, so come party with us.

We ended up with around 12 people at our house on Friday night and we all crammed into our kitchen and living room for a good time. Lots of "teacher talk", but that was to be expected when 8 of your 12 guest live and breath it. We had beer pong and guitar hero set up, but we never played either in favor of conversation. We did end up playing a variation on "the game" near the end of the party that was a lot of fun, but not as fun as the original.

What is "the game" you say? "The game with no name" or more commonly referred to as simply "the game" is a mix of Pyramid, Password and Charades with user created content. You start by splitting into two teams, the size of the teams does not matter, play 2v2 or 10v10 it is up to you. Everyone then comes up with nouns and proper nouns and writes them on a pieces of paper, the more people you have the less each player comes up with. The nouns go into a hat and the two teams Bato Bato Pick to see who goes first. The first round is done Pyramid style with one player feeding to their teammates for a minute and then the other team getting a minute, rinse and repeat until you are out of words. The nouns go back in the hat and you use the same words for the password round. Normally quadratic equation might be a hard concept to convey via password, but this the memory portion of the game, the same words were just used in the pyramid round. Again rinse and repeat till the hat is empty. The final round is charades, have fun acting out quadratic equation if you team doesn't remember it. Add up the points and the team with the most wins.

Wow, I didn't expect this post to be a Milton Bradley throw back (and I don't mean the baseball player's jersey), but there you have it. Friday night someone suggested that we play "the celebrity game", it is "the game", but you only use celebrity names, not anything you come up with (ex: lime green banana hammock). Not as fun as the original, but the party as a whole was fun times and great way to start off my birthday weekend.