Our family has a tradition of playing the game "Vampire". A few years ago, before Tim and Lisa were married, we played the game when Lisa came to our house for the first time. She loved it so of course we HAD to play it when Tim and Lisa came to visit at Christmas. :)
Vampire is kind of like a game of hide and seek but it is played completely in the dark and you don't know who is "it"! There is a deck of Vampire cards. The cards each have a picture on them of a gravestone but ONE card has a picture of a vampire. Each person takes a card and peeks at it, being careful not to let anyone else see it. The one with the vampire card is "IT" -- they are the vampire but no one knows who it is.
The lights go out, everyone goes to find a hiding place. We give 2 minutes to hide and when the timer goes off the "vampire" comes out of hiding and goes to find the others! Sometimes you bump into the "vampire" on your way to a hiding place or you might be hiding right by the "vampire" and not know it...until the timer goes off!
Then the "vampire" goes about finding victims one by one. When one is found they let out a blood curdling scream to let the others know they've been found! Then that "victim" joins the vampire in finding all the others that are hiding. Once everyone is found the lights go on and we begin again!
Now there is some set up to playing Vampire. Because it needs to be dark, we usually play in the winter when it gets dark earlier. But even in the winter it's not quite dark enough so we go about the house covering windows with throw blankets to reduce any light coming in.....
Like this...
And we cover anything that gives off any hint of light...
The radio..
The phone light...
The microwave...(and many other little flickers of light that
might aid in "seeing" in the dark.)
Then most anywhere is far game for a hiding place.
This was Lisa's very creative place.
In the dark, on the counter she was hard to find!!!
We are a Vampire loving family...even before vampires were the "in" thing!
3 comments:
We loved that story of vampire...we play BOO, but its much more calm. Can you picture either one of us sitting on the washer behind the curtain.....then when the other one happens down the stairs, light or not, the sitter yells BOO and gets a raise out of the other person...dumb huh at our age?...but fun.
Joan, your comment made me smile! If you and David are up to climbing up on a washer to BOO the other then you are surely up for Vampire in the Valenta household! :) When you come to visit we will have to play!
Love that sign behind the blanket, If Mama ain't happy, etc.
Sounds like a lot of fun was had by all
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