Gaming in Genf Day Two

On the second evening in Geneva, we decided to play the old favorite The Settlers of Catan. This is the game that I think started our renewed interest in board games over here. I had certainly not played anything for years before picking this one up. It is a fine game where you are collecting resources like wood, bricks, wheat and sheep and then building roads and towns in order to get points.

The main problem on this game is that I think it is only fun to play with exactly four people. Lucky we met this criteria. The game started off a little slow since we had all not played in a long time and were re-learning the rules and strategies to a certain extent...There is an ongoing joke that every game which gives a bonus for having "The longest street" becomes Claudia's ultimate goal. I think early in our game playing days, she won the longest street bonus a couple of times and now we all shout it at her in almost every game. "WATCH OUT! CLAUDIA IS GETTING THE LONGEST STREET!" Anyhow, she managed to get the longest street first in this particular game...
Then in an amazing turn of events, I built an even longer street and insisted on the immediate handover of the Longest street bonus card. Claudia did not want to give it up, but she had no choice.It was a nice game, but it took us quite a long time to get down to the end and we were all a little pooped. Ultimately, it was The Doris and her dominance of the tree resource that proved to be too much for the rest of us, and she rode her wave of lumber to victory.
As revenge, here is an unflattering picture of her with her rotten trees, notice how sunburned she was on this day. ha ha.