Abe and the kids spent hours playing together. I think it was some sort of Zombie game? The eye things remind me of Game of Thrones, but the kids have definitely not seen GoT so I don’t exactly know what they are.
Abe had plans to go see Nick and his grandma after church in Salt Lake, and we got 10 minutes away from Nick but started getting nervous about the roads. Ever since our scare in November winter driving is very stressful for us, and neither Abe nor I feel very confident that we are judging the safety of the road well. So we had the biggest fight we’ve had in a year about the roads, turned around, and drove two hours home. I spent the rest of the day napping and then went to bed at 8pm. (I think I might have been fighting off some sort of virus that Mary and Clarissa came down with too.)
Note from Abe about the game he played with the kids:
We used the fort the kids built to pretend like we were a family that all lived in the woods together. We did different activities, like fishing, eating the fish, and hunting elk. In the elk hunting game, the kids all got toy hunting weapons, and I was the elk. They would need to hit me with the toy weapon without me seeing them. If I saw them, they would need to count to five, frozen, while I ran away. They each got a chance to kill one elk. Then, they pretended to be the dead elk (Lydia made the theatrical paper eye covers), and I carried them to Lydia’s room over my shoulder one by one. Then we roasted each elk (kid) over a fire (garbage can). It was a super fun time.