Easter Games Night 2008

The Easter long weekend is a fun time for all, and I decided that I to wanted to get into the fun and have a games night on the Saturday and raise money for MPF for who ever was interested. There were plenty of games and prizes for the night yet only a small handful of people came to join in the fun, they were Ben Dougherty, Tammy Doney, Matt Smith, Andrew Boyd, Damien Stenhouse and of course Bulldog.

With only having a few people playing we decided that we would give out prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd over all for the night and they would receive points for each game that they won.

We started the night with the ever popular Killer pool, then a few games of cut throat. Well Bulldog and Ben dominated both of these games. Then I decided to do some speed ball, the aim of this game is to sink as many balls in 2 minutes. The best time I had ever seen was 1 minute 46 seconds.

Then Ben started to play, the first few games and the best time he had at this point was 1 minute 47. Now I was very excited about this as I am the record holder for it and I was pooping myself that he would take the glory from me. Well it wasn’t long and his best time over all ended up being 1 minute 29. You bastard Ben!!!!!

These games took longer then expected then it was time to do our very popular Easter egg hunt. Now this game was opened to the whole venue and everyone was getting excited about it as they had already found some of them, but they could not get them until 10 pm came. They all waited anxiously for Kez to give them the go ahead and when she did, it was the funniest sight I’d ever seen. Young and old were running everywhere looking for the 20 eggs scattered around the venue. After 20 minutes of people looking under tables and chairs, in lights and in any other place they thought I’d have put them, there were still 6 out there to be found. After a few small clues they only had one left to find, in which was the major prize. We gave them the first clue of it’s near something warm, this clue had no success, so we decide to tell them that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Well this still had no success and we couldn’t have made it more obvious and we weren’t going to tell anyone more clues until closer to closing time.

Then Some lovely people had come in for a few games and went to the fridge for a drink in which she found the lucky number 1 egg stuck inside the fridge behind the sun sign. So congrates goes to Emma, who won a night up in the function room for her and 50 mates. After all of the shenanigans of the egg hunt we decided to play the match box game in which we used 5 cent pieces, now this is a very funny, yet frustrating game if you haven’t played it before. After nearly 2 hours of playing only 1 game of this, it was time to tally up the scores. Tammy ended up coming 3rd, Damien 2nd and the extremely talented Ben 1st.

Well I’d like to thank everyone who participated and congratulations to those who won one of the many prizes handed out on the night.

Janey - Games Queen