Birthday (Mario) Party!

As part of the finale of my Birthday Weekend, John & Amy ventured over for Sunday evening dinner and Mario Party! We played two outstanding rounds with two separate winners...

In the first round, John -- played in the game by Boo -- eeked past Amy, the computer and I on his way to yet another victory with the ghost. John is hereby also banned from being Boo... if we haven't already banned that character from his repertoire (along with Toad):


In the second of two highly contested matches, the Birthday Boy himself took the crown:

A Perfect Match!

Not only did Amy win last night's Mario Party with the boys, but it was a perfect match from the start!

1. Amy rhymes with Yoshi.
2. She was wearing green in honor of her character!

The boys didn't approach the game with such a selfless paradigm, and instead ended the evening green with envy:


Poor boys!

A Tight One!

The most recent Mario Party was indeed a tight one! To let you share in the suspense, instead of posting the winner straight away, I'd prefer to walk you through the step-by-step of what John, Amy and I experienced last night...

First, we ended Pagoda Peak in a four-way tie with 1 star each!

When it came to coins, Amy won the final game to take a 1-coin lead over Boo (JW):

So we all knew that the Bonus Stars would lead us to the winner. Little did we know however, what they would be, and once announced, who in the world won them:

But Luigi (Todd) took the Mini Games star! A shocker as JW frequenly wins this star!

There was a two-way winner for Orbs used -- Boo & Toad! Darned small fries...

The final star would mean that whoever won the Running Star for movement on the board would win the whole thing! If Amy won, she'd have two stars and the most coins! But it was not meant to be...

Boo secured the third and final bonus star and effectively gave John yet another Mario Party win!

And we hereby state that JW can no longer be Boo either. Boring.

Wario ees zuh WEE-nuhr!

Wario (aka John Weaver) triumphs in our first February Mario Party outing!
Note: he did not win @ Sally's earlier in the evening on the Wii. That game did not exist -- there is no photographic evidence. So there.

Guy Weekend Champion!

Having won two out of the three Mario Parties of Man Weekend Jan2008, John Weaver is the CHAMP! Congrats on another fine finish, JW!

What this photo is not telling you, however, Avid Reader, is that Todd won the Man Weekend Jan2008 Barnyard Championship. Just sayin'.

Man Saturday, Game One

To keep our tradition of Man Weekend alive, JW and I relived the Mario Party adventures of a not so unrecent Thanksgiving. Sadly, with a similar start:

Dice Block Tie-Breaker!!

Are you kidding me?! For the first time ever, we ended Mario Party in a dead heat! Seven stars and ten coins for both Jesse Paulson and I. How do our friends at Nintendo choose to decide the SuperStar?
A Dice Block Tie-Breaker, of course!

Who rolled a three and who rolled a nine?

Indeed, Jesse Paulson takes the victory THIS time.

We have seen some amazing finishes friend; this one may go down as the all-time craziest!