I woke up around nine this morning, long before anyone else. It was a beautiful, bright day. Great sunshine so I got the doors in the upstairs office open right away. The Mediterranean was glistening from where I was sitting at my desk.
I brought Liesl’s laptop upstairs today and while I was working I worked on getting it loaded up with games on Big Fish that we have. We always forget that we actually have rather a large library of games on Big Fish that we never play. Getting those downloaded there means that Liesl can use her laptop to play video games while the Steam laptop is engaged for Steam games, too. Hopefully this will increase our game playing capacity a bit in the house and might expand the girls’ gaming horizons. Luciana is always struggling to find games that make sense for her to play at her age and Liesl misses some games that we have on Big Fish like the Dora the Explorer games.
I managed to play a little Skyrim this morning before getting into writing all day. The advantage of getting up at nine is that I can work nearly half a day, take a break around lunch for a bit, and then go back before most people have even gotten to their desk to start the day.
This evening we spent the evening playing Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse for the whole evening. We went from basically the beginning to only an hour until the end. It was as good as the one that we finished the other day, I think, but will not know for sure until the end. Both girls are enjoying it. I am so glad that we found Nancy Drew video games and that our girls like them so much. These are perfect for them.
While we were playing the game tonight, without any warning or provocation a light fixture in the downstairs bathroom fell off of the wall and shattered into the bathroom sink and went all over the bathroom and even out into the living room! We were all in the living room when it happened and it really surprised us.
Luciana fell asleep on top of me on the couch while Liesl was playing the video game tonight. Dominica carried her into bed and Liesl and I stayed up gaming until almost four in the morning! We had hoped to push on to the end of the game but there was just too much needed to get to it, so we had to save the very end of it for tomorrow.
I really like the quirky German black forest setting of the game, though. It’s fun. So far, all of us are liking it better than the last Nancy Drew game.