Game night with Kirchner

Tonight was game night! A couple of people headed over to Kirchner's to play some games and eat pizza since a lot of the group was gone for the weekend. The pizza was actually very good. I can tell I'm starting to miss American food a little. I had a couple of pieces, and we sat down to start a game of Uno No Mercy, which I had never played, and admittedly was a bit intimidated to play because of how much it was talked up. Although, getting competitive made up for it because jeez that game gets really freaking competitive, it was really fun and the fact that you could give someone 20+ cards should be criminal. After we finished that game, we decided that we wanted to go get ice cream from Eurospar over on Abbey side, so everyone started to walk over, and it was such a nice night out, and it was fun because we were all joking around and talking. We got to Eurospar and we grabbed a plain swirly for Kirch while she took Thor to the park, and I got one with oreo and some graham cracker thing in it that was really good, and by the time we had actually gotten to the park to meet up with people, mine was already halfway gone. We noticed a trampoline and a zipline on the park so after about a second of contimplating we all made our way over to them to run around with Thor, he was too little for the zipline so that was something we did on our own while he followed Kevin over to a seesaw kind of car thingie. It was starting to get dark, so we started making our way back to Kirch's townhouse for another game, and the sunset was really pretty. It was very pink and orange, and it matured into a gorgeous blue and purple while we got closer to the park. When we got back, we sat down to play Salem Witch Trials, which was kind of similar to Mafia. It was really fun, and in the first round me Kirchner and I were the witches and trying to figure out how to not get caught...which ended up not going well for us because that was a very short game. But it was still very fun and we all wanna play again. The poem that I thought to relate back to tonight was Yeats' The Folly of Being Comforted, and the last two lines of "O heart, O heart! If she'd but turn her head, You'd know the folly of being comforted." because the night was very comforting to me and I felt really happy and supported being around everyone. It was a very nice night!


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