Ah, peace

You can't imagine how much at peace we felt this afternoon on the sofa: me napping, Dragon playing games, sometimes chatting, eating takeout. Having guests is great, but just being by ourselves doing what we want is fantastic too.

In the evening we went to play some games with Laura and Clay - we played Citadels (first time for me, but this seemed like a really fun game) and Saint Petersburg (which we are really starting to get into). We like to try lot of games, but some games we keep getting back to, time and time again. I think Saint Peterburg might be one of these - it's simple enough, but possible strategies to use seem to be endless. You can't play against other players, so in the end you can't blame anyone else for you loss - while I like games like Citadels or Settlers where you can gang up on other people, I really enjoy games where it's just about you and your actions. And I think games like Carcassonne (or even better Hunters and Gatherers version which we prefer) are best when played collaborating, more than aggresively.

We were talking about holidays, and I mentioned that we were thinking about going to Burning Man this year - and turned out that Laura and Clay were big fans and had been to Burning Man several times in the past. They were discribing their incredible experiences from previous times and it made me want to go there more and more (if possible).

(I even had a Burning Man dream last night - I was there with Orava and Janka. Orava said that there were always shortages of water, and Janka offered to show me where to get water. We ended up wading in a river, going through some kind of amusement park where we had to go into slides which I always fear in my dreams. Rest of the dream turned into the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with a romantic last scene with Buffy and Spike.)