Games Without Frontiers
Football, Soccer, Ping-pong, Gockey. Name a game and we pretty much played it during our school’s three-day retreat to the mountains last week. And that was just during our “free” time. There was not shortage of activities, which made for some great father/daughter bonding time. She beat me in Tetherball. By cheating. I beat everyone in Ga-Ga, three times. By getting lucky. We lost as a team in Ping-Pong. By two points. After two action packed days, the trip was coming to an end, but not without the finale: Eco-Stratego, Mini-Survivor meets tag meets hide-and-go-seek Here are the rules -- two teams hide in the mountains... each player represents an animal... one player on each team is the sun. Find the sun and you win. Along the way, if you run down someone from the other team, tag them, and exchange your rank. Spider beats fly. Human beats lizard. Bear beats Lion or is it Lion beats Bear. Rule book please. As you might imagine, this is s...