Maybe I've Mentioned This Before?

We love Lego's at our house.  Have I said that before?  The bins full of Lego's that we have rarely get put away.  And when they do, it only lasts for a few days before one or all of them get pulled back out again.

This summer was a pretty quiet one for us.  Between Ryan fighting ear infections - swimmers ear, and myself having one thing after another after another after another.  All little things - nothing serious (well except for the infection that I had from my toe surgery.  That one did have me worried and worn out for a bit).  So we were pretty quiet.  We kept at home for the most part.  The only thing we did on a regular basis was bowling and the Summer Movies on Fridays (and we didn't even make it to all of those this year.)

Ryan has always been really good about entertaining himself.  And he did get to spend quite a bit of time with his friends Shawn & Matt.  They were constantly going back and forth to each other's houses all summer long.  Their mom and I have joked about having joint custody of our kids.

One day when it was just Shawn over, Ryan finally convinced Shawn to build a maze out of Lego's.  His original idea was to build this maze for another toy - Hexbugs to race through. 

The maze started out pretty small.  There were many days I would hear the neighborhood kids down there laughing and having a great time racing their bugs through the maze.  Well, somewhere along the way, the maze grew - even including a bridge.  And it changed from racing Hexbugs into a game.  There were teams of different Lego minifigures.  You could be knights, skeletons, rebels from Star Wars, Army, Empire from Star Wars and so on and so on.  In this game you rolled a 20 sided dice to move your person.  Once you were within range of another person's player you could try to shoot them or strike them with a lightsaber by rolling a 6 sided die.  Each team had a leader.  If the leader was killed then the Hexbugs were released onto the board.  The player whose leader had been killed had to roll frantically to get all the rest of their players to home base before getting hit by a Hexbug.  This game got played for at least a month with all sorts of kids coming over to play.  It has since changed to a zombie type game and I don't believe the Hexbugs are involved anymore.  I'm not sure.  I've only kinda played the zombie version for about 10 minutes one night and we didn't get very far into the game.

I've told Ryan for years he should get a job making up games.  He certainly has the imagination for it and can come up with rules that really make sense.  What do you think?

Of course I would not be writing without including some pictures.  So here you go, enjoy:

Ryan setting up the board.  He is the Army team.

The board.

Me, all setup and ready to play.

My team.  I was the Rebels from Star Wars.

One of the Hexbugs going through the maze looking for players to strike.