One thing we finally did was finish a game of Ticket to Ride. It's a game where you build railroad lines across North America. It's a BIG board and takes a long time to play, but it's really fun. Especially when you win, like I did last go round. :)
We also (finally!) played another round of Dungeons and Dragons this weekend, with Kennedy serving as our Dungeon Master.
We did fairly well, thanks to Christian having earned a giant elephant (Stampy), which was very helpful in battles.
For the record, Empty Bowls events are held all over the country. The idea was started in the 1990s by Lisa Blackburn and John Hartom. In an effort to counteract the negative news about hunger and poverty in their community in Michigan, Hartom, a high-school ceramics teacher, challenged his students to make 120 ceramic bowls, which they used at the first Empty Bowls. The even was held at their school, and a suggested donation of $5 per bowl was used to raise funds to fight hunger.
This is the fourth year we've helped chair the event at a local public school in Seattle. In years past, we've offered about 20 different types of soup (thanks to volunteers' contributions), and sold handcrafted bowls made by art students. Usually, in just one hour, we feed about 150 people, we raise around $700 for local homeless- and hunger-focused charities, and we take about 12 gallons of soup to a homeless 'tent city.'
I'm hopeful that tomorrow will be similarly successful. Fingers crossed and wish us luck. It's going to be a busy day. ...
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