Half term fun… February 14, 2009

Today was quite a strange day. I was supposed to go camping with the Baileys, but couldn’t because I was feeling ill (with a dodgy tummy).

Instead, I ended up staying at home (whilst the Baileys went playing with animals) and playing the most bizarre game of Monopoly ever! We had no power all day, so Roy (my next-door neighbour) and I decided to play a board game to entertain ourselves. We ended up playing Monopoly by the pool and being joined by almost all of the children living on site: Daniel (10), Leyla (7), Chidee (6), Ina (2), Ella (1), Ben (8 ) and Dan (6). It was originally a three-player game, with me, Roy and Daniel –the other children just came to “help” at various points in the afternoon.

The funniest of these was Chidee, the barmaid’s son, who ended up playing on behalf of Roy for half the time. Chidee was delighted at the amount of Monopoly money he was given to look after and shrieked with delight every time someone landed on his property and gave him more. I’m sure he thought it was real money… He was very confused when he had to pay us though, and counted each note as £1, so if you asked for £15, you could get given hundreds of pounds.

Leyla was the banker until she decided to go for a swim, Ina was very helpful at collecting the money that blew away in the breeze (which happened frequently), whilst Ella on the other hand just chewed it all! I think Dan and Ben enjoyed seeing how a board game is actually played, as they usually use them to make houses and things for their Star Wars toys.

It is strange how things turn out; I certainly didn’t imagine spending my half term in this way. At least I won the game –despite Daniel’s interesting take on the rules! I was sad to have missed out on camping in the bush and seeing animals though. Hopefully I’ll stay well enough to do that in the next school holidays…

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