Christmas

[written on 11/27, posted on 12/13, silly me] Jen and I have our Christmas tree! We will decorate it tomorrow. We also got pretty white snowflake stockings and a matching tree skirt. For the second year in a row we've selected a short five-foot-tall tree. It looks nice. In other news, Kitty joined us at mother's house for Thanksgiving. Strangely, he *never* left her living room... despite having the opportunity to roam anywhere he wanted in the house. Speaking on Thanksgiving, though, Jen and I got to play Seven Wonders and Carcassonne... which were both excellent games. The former seems to be more complex with a moderate learning curve, but with gameplay that's geared more towards "rounds" because they go quickly (or they would if less time was spent explaining things). Carcassonne was super easy to learn, yet seems to have a reasonably complete strategy with the different ways to score points. I played Carcassonne against Jen, my brother, and my dad. Throughout the game I was in dead last place by a large margin, and then scored 36 points at the end because of my farmers and finished in 2nd. Good times.