Our friends, the Reynolds, just moved back to Washington after being in Turkey for three years. Since we were already on the other side of the mountains, we figured it would be a perfect time to see them again. Ellensburg is only about an hour from Leavenworth and it was a beautiful drive through Blewitt Pass.
As we got closer, Angi texted us directions to their house. Brad thought she was just kidding about the dead badger. But she wasn't! (Although we later determined it was really a skunk.)
It was so great to see the Reynolds again! They're always up for an adventure and taught us two new games: The Flour Game, and Sock Wrestling! I didn't get any pictures of Sock Wrestling, but it was pretty crazy. Basically two people face off, then each person removes a sock and they wrestle, trying to be the first to take off the other person's remaining sock. We had some intense matches: Ryan vs. Angi, Kylie vs. Brad, Ben vs. Jillian, Thys vs. Ryan, Me vs. Brad. I was laughing so hard during my round that I only lasted about a minute before Brad had my sock off.
Here's the flour game, which is a little more tame:
You start with a tower of flour with a coin on top. Each person slices off a sliver of the tower, trying not to collapse the tower.
You go around and around, each person taking of slices, until finally someone makes the tower crash. That person has to dig out the coin with their teeth!
Of course it was Kylie who made it collapse!
(She's also the one Ryan dared to eat a fish eyeball one of the last times we saw them, and then proceeded to throw it up into his hands!)
After the flour game, we made pizzas.
No, we didn't use the same flour...
And of course we had to have a game of Settlers of Catan. The Reynolds are the ones who introduced us to Settlers many, many years ago!
Now that all the kids are old enough to play, we had to have two separate games. Angi, Jake, Ben and I played one game, and everyone else played the other.
Good times! We made promises to see each other sooner than three years!
