Family Reunion - Fun and Games

More Family Reunion activities.  We always have a Treasure Hunt for the younger set.  As they get older and smarter the game gets harder.  This year there were cryptic clues that led to parts of a treasure map.  You can make one of these quite easily by just taking a cheap, standard jigsaw puzzle and spray painting it white.  Then draw on in Sharpie the relevant landmarks.  Of course the parts that actually show you useful things are with the last couple of clues.  There might have been cups of water that rained down when one clue was retrieved by turning on a ceiling fan...

Three generation Trivia.  We had a good sized Canadian contingent so the topic was approximately Canadian-American culture.  Tim Horton restaurants, NHL teams, obscure lines from the lesser known verses of National Anthems.

In case you ever need to know this, Canada produces 80% of the world's maple syrup.

And about the same percentage of comedians and Science Fiction shows.

Later in the week, when all the kids were pretty wound up anyway, we had a game of Kubb.  This is a sort of Scandinavian lawn game where you knock over wooden blocks by throwing special sticks at them.  The inflatable roosters marked the starting line. The candy on top of each target block was my own addition.  "Sugar Kubb" if you can stand a bit of a pun.  Knock it over and you get the sugar.  Just the thing to settle the kiddos down a bit.

But don't get too noisy.  Baby sleeping notice.  The hastily done message actually says "You Wake, you Take".  The onion is a nice touch.