Williamsburg, Virginia
August 7 – 10, 2003
Another Gulf Games is over and it is time for the summary.
This year we arrived early for the first time. First of all this gave us some EXXTRA time to socialize before GG really started. But is also gave us the chance to give Greg, Vickie, and Tim a helping hand in the preparations. It feels good to at least be able to help out a little when you know that someone has been put down so much time and effort into something that you yourself benefit from.
I don’t take notes of the games that I play, never had and I probably never will. So I cannot possibly give you a complete list, but I will list a few memorable moments that I will cherish.
My game of Amun-Re with among others Larry Levy and Frank Hamrick. They say winning isn’t important, but you know some times it just tastes so sweet 😉 I am not quite sure what I did right in this game, but obviously something since it was a landslide. I tried to find a medal with the text “It is not so much the winning as the humiliation”, didn’t find any though.
Formula DE mini, I am not particularly found of Formula DE, and I cannot say I like Formula DE mini that much better, but it was great to see Frank go from last to first zooming past the field and the crowd go mad (oh well it didn’t but it would have if it had been a real race.) And just for the record I didn’t end up last, my car was still running when it ended… 🙂
Zendo was the big hit for me this GG. Playing with ” Masta’ Ted” was a blast. I think a participated in more than six rounds. For those of you who participated in the “Is zero odd or even discussion” and didn’t get the latest results. Seems “zero is even” is ahead but the real mathematicians are still debating. Guess you should make sure ahead of the game how to play it. It came up twice during the games that I played.
Ever heard of the Australian-Swedish wars of ’03’? No? Strange, thought that was big news all over the place. Well two of the battles were fought in Colosseum in games of Ave Caesar. Two funny and memorable games, especially the ‘1’ that was really a ‘3’.
I also greatly enjoyed the word games that I played, which is strange cause I normally don’t like them when played in Swedish. Pick Two is a favorite, Password was tough and I really liked the “find something something starting with this letter in a picture” that Dave taught me.
There is a special feeling when you enter an empty game room early in the morning. All the games are stacked around the walls, waiting to be played. The contrast with the silence that reigns there now, apart from the chaos which ruled when you left for bed the evening before. Well anyway I want to give credits to everyone for doing such a good job of cleaning up. I was among the first into the game room on both Friday and Saturday and the morning clean-up was a breeze. We didn’t have to do much more than vacuum the place.
About the New York blackout. How was I supposed to know that you don’t accept a brand new car given to you in a dark alley by a bearded man wearing a white robe? But hey, to my defense, I did find it odd that the trunk was so small and I also did ask him why he had put a clock in there. But his explanation that it was an extra gas tank and that the numbers counting down was just indicating much that was left sounded reasonable to me. After all he looked Arabic so extra gas fitted the bill.
As everyone keeps pointing out it is not so much the games as the people. It is always fun to meet up with everyone again and since we arrived early this year we had even more time to spend with y’all. I would like to refrain completely from naming anyone because you will just end up missing someone, but I must at least thank Michael and Julie for everything. Gulf Games wouldn’t have been the same without you!
By now we all know that Sus and I will make it back some day so just continue to make Gulf Games the best gaming event and we will meet again.