Family Blog: Car games

July 19, Fairmont Algonquin Resort, NB

So I'm sure many of you have your favourite games to play in the car, when you're travelling a long distance and need a way to pass the time. Not only do they help to pass the time, they can be a great way to interact with each other in the car. Between reading books, listening to music and watching movies, there are a lot of ways to pass time in the car without interacting. Here's a sample from a game we played the other day, driving to Quebec City from Ottawa. Each person in turn gets to add one word to a sentence, making some attempt to connect ideas. As you may notice from this example, we had recently heard a story (Anne of Green Gables) that addressed the use of the colon...not sure we quite managed it, but heh, you try doing that as a group effort!

"Twas the morning after Easter that Egg awoke to cracking noises. She thanked the Lucky Duckling for being quiet. Franklin didn't appreciate the messiness of the door. Towering over Seattle, with its gore-ish light was the Lucky Duckling: standing than all eggs was a lucky, smallish duckling. However, it being fat, the smallish Lucky Duckling found it was fat, and although he loved all smallish, fat ducklings, he couldn't bring flowers. Houses interrupted CBC signals during his ear training exercises. Coffee Pot [a reference to another car game we play] (plurally) and greyish, brown, green tea was better, although never quite clean. On December 1956, Martians became fat persons (humanoid) with perogies as their main food source: perogies were what they ate. Vehicular movement confused lucky Martians of humanoid ducklings. Mazda, the cleanest car thing that ate lucky, smallish Martians with lucky, rotund ducklings, was poised on the CN pool diving Subway (eat fresh) board. Tent lights notoriously caused serious vehicular confusion: having caused vehicles to become confused, when tent lights were on. Trains crashed silently through white mosquito infested bushes, causing vehicular and earrings with jewels to jump. French Martians talked."