Darts at Max's

Sami had a gift certificate to Max's Brew Pub and he decided we should take Aaron our to dinner to thank him for feeding our fish and watering our plants while we were gone.

We ordered a beer sampler, they had some pretty interesting flavors. The raspberry stout was surprisingly good, and so was the chocolate stout.

The food was pretty good, but they didn't have the Gourmet Mac-N-Cheese that was on special, and they wouldn't take Sami's gift certificate. Apparently the deal ended in November.

Just as we were getting ready to leave, we noticed the dartboard. I know I'm bad at darts, so I made a rule that if bounced off and fell on the floor we could have a second (or third) try. That helped a lot. We had fun playing cricket and I didn't lose by such a wide margin. Maybe I should buy Sami a dartboard for the home theater room for his birthday.

Oh, and Max's definitely wins the award for worst lighting ever. At least our table was near the window surrounded by cheery christmas lights.

We Play Wii

Sami and I went over to see Chris's new condo. (There was still some stuff in boxes, so I didn't take pictures.)

Chris loves games of all kinds and so he has the Nintendo Wii. We'd never tried one before and it was a lot of fun.

First we played the tennis and bowling and boxing... Chris and Sami laughed at my boxing style, (they said I looked like I was drumming) but I got a KO on my first try!

After the sports games we tried one of the other games that comes with the Wii. The game instructs you on various positions for how to hold the remote (or Wiimote as Chris called it).

Then you have to complete the action show on screen in the alloted time. It's silly but a lot of fun.

Here Sami had to slash this log with the samurai sword.

It's amazing how the controllers work with the game... how they know what you're doing and reproduce it onscreen.

I took a video of Sami playing to give you a better idea of how it all works.

Actually Sami took a video of me too, but he held the camera vertically and movies can't be rotated the way pictures can.