In keeping with the tradition we established last year, we had some friends over to commemorate the coming year.  This time, however, rather than watch a movie marathon we decided to do a boardgame marathon, though much more abbreviated than last year's movie marathon.  We had Eric and Kimberly Tolman over to eat dinner and play games, and play we did.  We tried some new games which were loads of fun.

We played:

• Speed Scrabble - A variation on Scrabble that the Tolmans taught us consisting on building out your own private set of tiles before everyone else.  I love Scrabble so this is a welcomed addition to our gaming repertoire.
• Mystery of the Abbey - a whodunnit mystery game similar to, but quite distinct to Clue.  That was a good time.  Oh, it was Brother Harold whodunnit you know, the thin, hooded, clean-shaven Brother Templar.  Just as I suspected.
• Shadows Over Camelot - a fantastic game that works hard against you.  It whooped our butts.  We need to develop a strategy for beating this game.  I look forward to the next time we can play this.
• Carcassonne - A now-staple game around our house which we discovered nigh a year ago now, we played with the Inns and Cathedrals and the Princess and the Dragon expansions.  Lots of fun.  Carcassonne is a wonderful tile-based game.

All in all we had a great time!

Perhaps I should post something about setting goals, my personal goals, etc in a post such as this, but I just wanted to report on our evening.  I'll be touching on other more lofty topics in the days to come.

Happy New Year!