Monopoly!!

This is how we spent two hours last night...playing Monopoly!!

We had been at home all day because it was just too cold to go anywhere! We had already put up the tree and all the Christmas decorations, we had watched too much TV, and it was only 6:30 pm!

I suggested we play a game together, so the girls went and got Monopoly.  By the time we got it set up and going, it was about 7 pm.  We sat around our table until 8:45 playing this game!

But since you cannot finish a game of Monopoly in less than two hours, we had to let it be until today.  This was kind of hard to do because we all had properties, and houses, and we had gotten into a rhythm!

After we got home from a work event for Matt today, we gathered back around the dining room table to finish our game.  Matt had a couple houses on his properties, I had some, Megan had three on some of hers, but Courtney was definitely taking the game more seriously we were!  She was proud of her properties and houses that she had and she thought it was great that she was taking money from everyone in the form of rent.  She was also doing a great job counting out money and following along.

We had gotten to the point where we knew any move could send someone into bankruptcy.  Every move was calculated and there were certain spaces you knew would cost a LOT if you landed on them.  (Megan had three houses on some of hers!)  There was a point when you were glad when you got sent to jail just to avoid a certain part of the board!

I thought I would be out on a certain move, but then I sold some houses and mortgaged some properties and Matt had to do the same thing, but then Courtney landed on one of Megan's spots that had three houses and her rent was $700!!  Poor Courtney had less than $200 in her possession, so Matt and I said she had to start selling back houses. This poor thing started to sob and cry! No, not cry, almost wailing!! She did not want to sell back her houses!!  We sold them back for her and went ahead and mortgaged her properties and she was not taking this well!! 

Matt and I know this is how the game works, so we were just sort of laughing about it, we certainly did not expect this out of Courtney! (Megan, yes!)  Matt and I eventually figured out that she could not come up with enough money and she had to declare bankruptcy.  Game over! 

It took us quite awhile to get Courtney calmed back down! It was almost unbelievable, I don't think I have seen her this upset in a long time! She wasn't even this upset when we had to put Dell down!!

She then said that she wanted to play again- just her and dad, but that didn't happen.  Matt sat on the couch with her for awhile until she stopped crying and we were able to eat supper and enjoy the finale of "The Amazing Race" tonight.

I don't know how long it will be until we play Monopoly again!!