A Day in the Park

Last weekend I finally made it to "Game Day" which is pretty self explanatory. It's a bunch of people who get together once a month to play games. They have been inviting me to Game Day since February and I was thrilled to be able to go. This month's game day was in Astoria Park--in my old 'hood.

I must say, Astoria has changed a lot since I lived there with friends immediately post-college. It's hard to believe that it's been 5 years since I left Astoria and even harder to believe that we graduated from college 7 years ago. While there are still a lot of Greek people there, Astoria is now over run with yuppie families and their kids in strollers. Last Sunday, Astoria Park played host to 3 hours of Apples to Apples and Catchphrase. At first, we split people into obvious teams: girls vs. boys. Then we went to the less obvious teams: t-shirts vs. tank tops; denim vs. non-denim; white vs. non-white; and straight vs. gay. The winners were gay, tank top, non- denim wearing white folk. In between games we snacked on chips, fruit, and other treats--I suppose we could have split the teams according to eating habits as well--the healthy fruity types, the salty snack fans, and the chocoholics. Strangely enough, I was in the mood for fruit on Sunday.

I hope to make it to next month's Game Day. It was a great way to spend some time outdoors and meet some new people. Plus, it gave me an excuse to post a picture--since Evil Twin #1 tells me that the Mango Avenger has been clammoring for more photos. So, that was last weekend. Hmm. . . when Evil Twin #1 was in town we played card games over Memorial Day. I hope that this trend continues and that there will be many more games to be played.


Evil Twin #2 scrutinizing her hand