Thursday, February 14, 2008

Houston, we have a problem.

Riding the red race car at Gatti's
Riding Apollo 13 at Gatti's. Couldn't they have chosen a better name for a little kid's rocket ride? Ironically, it didn't work at first, and an attendant had to come check it.
Gabe playing Monopoly. Note the house on Community Chest. He later moved it to the Electric Company.
Gabe discovering that he hasn't been collecting rent from his hotel, which he built on property he didn't own. Someone's fired!

This week, Gabe got to go to Mr. Gatti's, the poor man's Chuck E. Cheese's. We have a perfect system to make sure he gets plenty of cheap prizes: while Gabe is on the kiddie rides, Barry disappears with a few tokens and comes back 100 tickets richer. Barry took him back for lunch yesterday, and Gabe hit the jackpot twice on the same game and won 300 tickets by himself.

Tonight, we also tried to introduce him to Monopoly. He played exactly by the rules, except: he got to build a house and/or hotel on each turn, wherever he wanted; he never actually bought any properties; he didn't have to pay rent; he got money on demand; and he could have multiple game pieces in play.

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