The Last Hurrah!

Well, we finished off our visit with Charlie and Stacey with some good food and good times! Aunt Stacey had the great idea to get out of the house after the weekend of rain, so we packed up the kids and took them down to the pool for a couple of hours.

Then last night, it was fondu! Our first attempt into this arena and it was a raging success. Cheese with apples, bread, and cauliflower. Then some tasty steaming broth for the mushrooms, shrimp, steak, and chicken. Throw in a few dipping sauces and a couple varieties of wine and OH YEAH!

After dinner we put the kids to bed, broke out the cards and played a hand before we broke out the chocolate fondu, strawberries, bananas, pound cake, and marshmallows. Oh my. And let me just say that my wife came up with the best chocolate fondu I have EVER tasted. So good.

Oh, of course there was also the game... but I think you can probably figure out who won that. :)

Final for the weekend:

Guys (aka the WINNERS) : 4
Ladies : 1

Ouch.

Last night

Well, it was decided that we would continue the game from the night before and after a game filled with suspicion of cheating by the ladies. They were able to squeak by with a razor thin victory.

So, then we started fresh and the tables quickly turned. There were some brilliant and memorable maneuvers by the guys (otherwise known as the Winners). Which leaves the score so far at:

Winners (gentlemen) : 3 (after generously removing the .5 victory from the night before)
Whiners (the lovely by whiny ladies) : 1 (which is really being quite generous considering the game was broken up over more than one day)

Well...

We had to cut the game short after two hands, since we went out with some friends to Dave and Buster's, but...

Guys : 2.5
Ladies : nada

Running Total

Well, last night it was Phase 10 and Keith eked out a win.

Tonight, our friends Ann and Tracy came over. Six people, guys verses girls, the game was Canasta and the girls got taken to SCHOOL!!!! Completely shut out of the last hand they never even got on the board, they actually had negative points from the cards in their hands. It was beautiful, but not unexpected.

Guys : 2
Girls : Hey they're trying (0)

Unlce Charlie and Aunt Stacey Come to Visit!

Uncle Charlie and Aunt Stacey flew in from Kentucky and were greeted by typical AZ weather, rain, hail, and a cool 70 degree May day. Huh? Our first good rain since February showed up about the same time as they did and has been hanging around for a couple of days now.

So, yesterday we checked one of the restaurants on Uncle Charlie's list off and went to Kittie... I mean Filiberto's for lunch. Actually according to the stickers on the window they serve only Angus Cat... I mean beef now. Uncle Charlie says, "if they can make cat taste like that, I'll eat it!"

Then we went and checked out the new Narnia movie. Sa-weet! But very intense.

Then we headed home, ate some spaghetti, put the kids to bed and played some Phase 10!

Here are some pics of the fun.

I guess you can see what happens when you feed Uncle Charlie Mexican food. It continued all night.

While I couldn't actually get video of the act, this was pretty close.