February 4, 2012 6:00 PM - 85 attended
Midwinter Board Game Night and Mike's Birthday Party 2012!
Saint Albert the Great Catholic Church (map)
Come and join us for fun and games and help Mike celebrate another birthday!
This event will be a potluck so please bring something for potluck table and your own beverage if you want something other than lemonade or water. $5 suggested donation per family. All ages welcome.
NEW! There will also be a white elephant gift exchange in honor of Mike's birthday. Bring an item if you want to participate.
While we will provide a wide variety of games to play, please feel free to bring your own as well (and remember to mark them too!) The social hall is a great space for game playing - lots of tables, comfortable chairs, good lighting and access to the kitchen.
Parking is available in lot across church, on the street (odd side parking only) and lot in rear of church. Elevator access is located using the door behind statue of St. Albert. Enter using side doors on west side or in rear of church (on east side) and go down one level to the social hall (basement).
If you want to request a specific game you can see most of our collection on BoardGameGeek.com - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/collection/use....
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Mike Tangedal
Here's how the White Elephant gift exchange will go.
Everyone bringing a gift (make it interesting and fun, not expensive) will turn in the wrapped present for a random number.Around 8 PM, we'll announce the White Elephant exchange. Those with the lowest # will then pick a gift and unwrap it and write the name of the gift along with their name on a provided bulletin board.
The next number will either pick a random gift or go steal someone else's gift and so on until all gifts are gone.
Posted January 30 at 2:02 PM | 1 like -
Nadine Sehnert
Looks like it won't be the coldest night of the year either! Yeah!
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Kristi
OK, I've wrapped everything, and it turns out I have 17 white elephant gifts. Ain't nobody getting outta there without taking something home. ha ha. And maybe...maybe some of them will turn out to be just your dream come true. :)
Posted January 31 at 9:49 PM -
Michael
Great, now I feel like Cecelia and I should come empty handed just so that work isn't for naught! :-)
Posted February 1 at 12:00 AM -
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Kristi
I've been going through my things and I realize that I have lots of things that I once thought "that would be a nice gift" after which I packed it away and completely forgot about it. I'm sure there will be plenty of people there who either (a) forgot to bring a gift or (b) thought they could sneak out of it by conveniently "forgetting" to bring a gift. heh heh heh
Posted February 1 at 5:34 PM -
rosie
could you bring a game called "can't stop"? mark said you guys have it - ignore my earlier request - i got the name of the game wrong...
Posted February 4 at 10:02 AM -
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David B
Nadine, could you please bring "Word Thief?"
Sue and I would like to come and get more feedback from those interested on the "Play on Words" concept we are continuing to work on. Thank you!Posted February 4 at 3:01 PM
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Chris GrimesSorry I missed it, have a bad case of the cruds, didnt want that to be my B-Day present to all. Hope you had a great time
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Mike BackstromThanks to Mike and Nadine for organizing this. I got a chance to try that new cave man version of Power Grid. I'm looking forward to the next gathering at St. Albert the Great.
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Sandrai had a wonderful time. first time i went to this group. the people are friendly the food was GREAT.
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Jim DetryHad a good time except for it was hard to play a game with people talking on the speakers all the time. Didn't quite see the point of a white elephant with people stealing previous gifts. It could all have been done quicker and quieter.
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