Déjà Vu?

Sometime last year around September or October, we played my version of Settlers of Catan while drinking Gin & Tonics out in my parent’s the dining room. About mid-game, Robert reached across the board and spilt his drink all over my game and across the dining room table. Since then Robert has been issued a sippy-cup and we’ve avoided playing Settlers in that room (with my gin-soaked warped Settlers tiles).

That is until last night.

With no other solid playing surface in the house adequate enough for the game we thought we would once again play on the dining room table. We joked about last time and how fortunate we were not to have a sippy-cup-less Robert around for the game. Of course, we each had our own drinks as we sat around the board and started to play. This time it was Rachel that reached across the board mid-game to grab something when she knocked her drink over the table and about half the board.

Having gone through this once before, we were a bit more knowledgeable on how to act amidst this crisis. Even though we set the wet tiles out to dry overnight, I’m thinking that I might need a new version of the game. We managed to get through one drinking accident, but I’m not sure how it will hold up after multiple drinking accidents. Hmm… my birthday is coming up in 2-weeks. I’ll probably end up with two versions of the game for separate occasions: one as a regular version and one as a party version. That way as people finish their drinks, they can suck some gin or rum from the game tiles.