Gen Con

Gen Con is an annual four day convention for gaming which takes place in Indianapolis.  People come from all over the country for it.  There are people dressed in costume as Star Wars characters and Superhero's, as well as other characters.  Big gaming fans like those that play Dungeons and Dragons come.  Dennis decided to take Colin and Evan today and they had a blast!  They played different games, got their faces painted and saw a bunch of characters.

One of our favorite games is Catan and the boys got a chance to play Catan Junior which they really enjoyed, so Dennis was able to purchase it for them.  Now we can all play as a family.

Saturday was spent at Colin's first soccer game.  They have goalies this season, so scoring was a bit harder, but he still managed to make a goal.  His team lost a close game, but they did very well.  Colin's coach came up to us afterwards and was pretty impressed with his playing ability.

The rest of Saturday Dennis had 2 different fantasy football drafts that he did over FaceTime on the computer.  In between, he hung out with us outside.  After the kids went to bed I went over to our next door neighbors house to hang out on their back patio.  They let off their fireworks that they had not gotten a chance to do for Fourth of July, due to a ban on them (because of the drought).  It was neat because a bunch of different neighbors all were sitting out on their back porches and watched as the fireworks were set off in the common area behind our house.  Dennis was still doing his second draft, but he came over for a short time after.  It was a busy weekend for Dennis and a pretty uneventful one for me.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that on Friday Dennis took Colin to the Carmel Highschool football game.  The highschool in this town is HUGE.  4,000 kids for just 9th-12th grade.  And football is a big deal.  Dennis said there were thousands of people there (we were told something like 20,000 people come for the games, not sure if that is true).  People were even tailgating before the game!  They stayed for the first half and then came home since it was way past bedtime for Colin.  Colin really enjoyed it though.