Canasta

Last week I headed over to a friends for a much needed Girls Night Out.

It was Games Night.

The Hand and The Foot

When we were younger, and the days seemed simpler us girls would spend many evenings together playing a crazy card game called Canasta. While the online rules of Canasta seem pretty straight forward, we girls had our own version. Instead of the standard 2 decks of cards, we used 6 decks and we stacked those 6 decks of cards with extra wild cards. All night long we sat around the kitchen table, puffing on our cigarettes and trying our hardest to pick up that pile.

As we sat around the kitchen table discarding cards into the ever growing discard pile the anxiety would grow as you tried to figure out which cards to discard and which to keep. And so another cigarette would be lit and the haze above the kitchen table would grow larger as the game continued and that pile of cards grew.

Things use to get pretty intense back then, no phone calls or bathroom breaks allowed, until a round was finished. I still get reminded of the time when I threw my cards down on the table and let out a slew of swear words when someone picked up the pile. Yes I KNOW it's just a card game, but I'm just a TAD competitive.

The start of a long game.

Huge refreshments, with bonus gum: buy 3 big gulps, get one used gum: FREE!

So when we had Game Night last week, it was nice to sit at the table with my same 3 friends. It was just like old times, hanging out and chatting and enjoying each others company. Except there was no haze of smoke, or swearing, just 1 crazy card game called Canasta which happens to last 5 hours.

~b~