Though the Warings are made of good hardy Canadian stock, even they have to come indoors to warm up once in a while, and if one is going to warm up, one might as well be playing games. They brought Pictionary, Blurt, Rummikub, and a deck of playing cards for bridge or Crazy 8's. Pictionary was arguably the family favorite of the weekend, but Rummikub was a good choice when they were just too weary for races against time, and Catherine was starting to get worried that everyone was using up her drawing paper!
C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me,
Cookie, cookie, cookie start with C!"
(borrowed from the Cookie Monster in Sesame Street)
Rummikub came with the additional benefit of having plenty of tiles to build towers when one was done with the game. The main challenge here was that all of the budding architects had to build on the same surface, so if some builder happened to accidentally bump the table, all of the structures would crumble to the ground, earning the hapless offender many squawks of protest!
