On the Beach, and to the Musée

Twas the last day of my holiday vacation and I realized there was an important gap in the family Christmastime activities.  We had not gone to the beach!

Today we rectified this omission.  Of course I am doing this entirely to make the readers in the cold, frozen, or soaking wet portions of the northern hemisphere jealous.  The water at the beach was wonderfully warm, the sand soft, and the air temperature moderate.  Heck, you don't get most ( if any) of those things at an Oregon beach at the height of summer.  The kids had great fun splashing in the waves, playing in the sand, and collecting a myriad of shells.  Fun was had by all, myself included (even as a pasty white computer geek who normally has no business out in the daylight).


After we got home, ate a wonderful dinner and put the kids to bed, it was time for a trip to the Art Museum.

Game report Day 3: Musée

This is a pretty basic little game that has a lot in common with Rack-O, a classic game that I also enjoy.  Essentially you are populating a gallery with works of art.  Each is numbered.  The only restriction is that you cannot place a higher numbered painting to the left of a lower number within the same gallery (read row).

Points are scored by having paintings of similar them and style grouped together.  Since most of us are not art scholars, the game makes it easy by putting related paintings in color groups.  The downside is that the art itself does not matter much at all to the game itself and is easily ignored.  This is not a major complaint, and the visual effect is beautiful.  I quite like this game and expect to be getting it out again when a lightweight filler game is needed.

Now the real test of the resolution begins.  Will I be able to keep this up after my return to the corporate sausage grinder?  Time will tell.