Thursday, July 13, 2006

It brings tears to my eyes

My boys are playing Oregon Trail and loving it! It's so great to see them enjoying a game that I played and loved when I was their age. Their game cube got fried when the power flicked at their house yesterday so I thought this was a perfect opportunity to introduce them to Oregon Trail. They have been playing for about 3 hours now. They love hunting and fishing. It's good for them because it forces them to read and they learn history. They are playing their first game by themselves right now. I think they keep saying how they are starving to death so they probably didn't buy any food. I guess since they are boys they are not that concerned with shopping. I used to sit there and shop for hours, guessing what my people might need and want for the trip. They are even using their imaginations to think up what their people are doing on the trip like I used to do. They have brought their two cousins and their parents along with them. I always brought my cousins, and whoever I had a crush on at the time. Time to go to the park now! They must be fed up with starving.

2 comments:

Marissa said...

I always brought my best friend and a couple of boys I had a crush on so I could have a better chance of ending up with one of them. Inevitably, the cutest of the boys would die of an untreated snakebite or something. Such is life on the Trail.

Anonymous said...

love that game! I didn't even know that it was still around.