Holiday Celebrations and Dangerous Christmas Games!
Happy Holidays everyone! No matter what you celebrate, we hope you had a great time!
Lu and Crew celebrated Christmas this year with Lu’s family!
We had a great time of eating delicious food!
There was pozole, cinnamon rolls from Old West Cinnamon Rolls in Pismo Beach, CA, and more!
Of course we opened presents and played very competitive games!
We had a great time this year playing a very competitive and fun game for Christmas! Everyone pitched in $10 to buy small but great gifts for this game ahead of time. Lu’s sister-in-law then bought small gifts such as gift cards, jams, lotions, mini fishing poles, paracord and more! She then wrapped all these small gifts individually and then bought Costco’s roll of saran wrap. After, she wrapped all the presents into a giant ball using all of Costco saran wrap!
The Saran Wrap Ball Game!
The saran wrap ball game can get dangerous!
It is a very competitive but fun game. If you have an extremely competitive family, then be prepared for a crazy good time of screams, yells and thrown oven mitts!
The objective of the game is to unwrap as much of the saran wrap as you can to get to a gift inside.
There’s a few catches.
The first, you only have as much time as it takes for the next person in line to roll the dice, they must roll two 6’s or snake eyes or whatever you all decide.
The second catch, you can only try to unwrap the ball while wearing oven mitts!
This is where it gets hard!
You may think this is simple.
If you know saran wrap, then you know how sticky it is and how much it can cling to something without you being able to find an edge.
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Now imagine having to find the edge of the saran wrap, while wearing oven mitts! It is so hard! You cannot feel anything through the oven mitts, you can’t use your nails and then you’re under pressure to beat the roll of the dice!
Now of course you want to win a gift!
If you can unwrap enough of the saran wrap to get to a gift, then you win the gift.
However, if you cannot unwrap in time before the next person rolls the agreed upon number, then you lose your chance at the gift!
You can have anywhere from multiple minutes to unwrap or as little as 5 seconds, it all depends on how quickly the next person rolls the right number.
This is where it got dangerous in my family!
My family was wanting to win gifts! Who wouldn’t!?
I was wanting to win one of the gifts too!
You finally get a hold of an edge and your’e unraveling as fast as you can and you can see the gift and then you hear “Sixes!!” or whichever number was chosen.
You are so into the game that you start screaming “No!!!” because you just lost your chance at that very tempting gift you can see is only two unravels away!
It was at moments like this where oven mitts were thrown, shouts were given and even arms swung as we got very into this game and everyone wanted to win!
Cheating may occur so we made a rule that if you punched holes through the saran wrap or cheated in any way, then you lost your gift and it went to the next person.
It was an amazingly fun Christmas day! Full of laughter and good times.
Great memories were made!
A few bruises too, haha!
We had a great time and this game may now be a new tradition in the family.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
Alyssa Trump is a creative freelance writer and former educator with a Masters in Education. She specializes in blogs pertaining to Travel, Pets, Education, and Life. The California Native currently resides in North Carolina with her boyfriend and two dogs. This dog mom enjoys hiking, reading, and spoiling her fur babies. To see how she can help your business find new leads with engaging content, contact her at alyssatrump93@gmail.com.
Originally published at https://wheresluandcrew.com on December 28, 2019.
