Games

For Vikings fans it looks as if you will be doing the cheering from your home for the first 2 home games at least.

The closure will begin at 5 p.m. Wednesday and will last at least two weeks.

Game night with friends will never be the same once you load up these wood pieces with jello shots.

For some Packers fans in Wisconsin, they have to deal with Vikings games being broadcast in their county instead of Packers games .

When you volunteer to spin around a baseball bat a few times, your colleagues are going to film it all.

Simon says, put your hands on your head. Simon says, turn around. Put your hands down. Out! If that gives you flashbacks to standing in kindergarten, arms at your sides, while all your classmates point and stifle giggles, let's just say you're not the only one.

I love road trips, but my daughter is almost 23 and that makes for a much more relaxed drive.  For those of you with young children it can be stressful, but there are ways to keep them engaged that doesn't involve a movie, computer or electronic game.  In fact, some of these games can enhance their math and reading skills.

Luckily my friends had rec rooms, rumpus rooms and basements filled with fun games, because all I had was a phonograph.  That was it, a phonograph.  Through my friends I learned how to play pool, air hockey and foosball.  We recently acquired a foosball table through a Family Pathways Thrift Store in St. Croix Falls, WI and childhood memories came flooding back.

A week ago today, I woke up and immediately was launched into blind confusion about what this new Pokemon Go thing was all about.  A game where it gets kids out into the real world? What?  Gotta catch them all?  What?  So to better understand what our 8 year old was so obsessed about, I downloaded the game.   And I immediately started playing.

I recently attended a bridal shower for a family friend and of course, there were games.  I hadn't been to a bridal shower in awhile so I didn't know what to expect.  One game was retro with a twist and one was new to me (and I wasn't that great at it).

Nothing was better than computer lab and Oregon Trail growing up.  I remember typing in my friends' names in my group and then slowly watch them all get sick and suffer across the trip to the west.  It was a game that taught us how difficult it was in the old frontier, and now you can play it again for free!

I discovered this game at a party over the weekend, and it was a ton of fun.   I figured we should try it on the morning show and have some fun...