We've been in the car for well over 10 hours at this point, having driven up to the wonderful San Luis Obispo to see Max for Parents Weekend. The Rose, the Bean and the Golden Weasel all saw her apartment for the first time and then we had lunch downtown and are now on the way back down, just south of Los Angeles. It's nearly 10pm, and we left the house about 7:30am, so to say we're all a little punchy would be an understatement.
But none more so than the Golden Weasel. She's been amazing all day, a trooper and a half. But she's only 9, and driving five and a half hours, then walking around for about three hours, and then getting back in the car, is just not what she's wired for. She's uttered barely a peep of dissent, but she looks exhausted and, oddly, she barely has the strength to speak in more than a whisper.
We've been playing our family's modified version of 20 Questions, where the thing to be guessed is generally an abstract concept, such as "Thursday" or "the smell of the road after it's rained" or "the feeling of love you get when you look at a sleeping baby to whom you're closely related." Naturally, these usually not only take far more than 20 questions to figure out. But the answering of each question is nearly as difficult as figuring out what the concept in question is, and is rarely a straight "yes" or "no" but requires nuance and thoughts on the part of the person holding the answer. I mean, sure, you can taste "traffic," but is is a plain ol' "yes" really the right response there?
Anyhoozle, it's the Golden Weasel's turn to come up with something.
"Is it an abstract concept?" the Bean asks.
"No," the Weasel murmurs.
"Is it broccoli?" asks the Rose.
"Yes!" yells the Golden Weasel hoarsely but happily, and laughs for the next three minutes, before passing out.
It was a good day.
What a creative spin on the "20 Questions" game. Awesome. Right up there with LIssa's "Part-of-Speech" game that she got us playing so many years ago. Can't wait to try the new one. Y'all rock!
Posted by: sarah | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 05:12 AM