My teenage years encapsulated in a picture....

A friend just posted a pic of my old homemade Settlers edition on Facebook which she has held onto for 10+ years.  Back in '96 in northern BC, it was very hard for a 15-year-old to get a copy of Settlers of Catan without a credit card and before the current board game fanaticism brought everything to North America.  So I made my own copy with the rulesets I found online.  I think this picture foreshadows a lot. It's also a tad tragic - barns in farmland???  HA!

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(Thanks, Shannon, for holding on to this piece of history!)

Local teen game night...

If you've got teens (or are a teen) and you are local to the Kitchener-Waterloo area, my good friend Kelly has helped organize a free teen drop-in night on Wednesday evenings.  And if Kelly's involved, I am pretty certain there will be a bunch of board games available for playing there.