Charades: LBI Family Style
Playing charades can be really fun especially with all 14 of your relatives playing in the same room. It's a struggle to get everyone together after a dinner though. My mom really puts an effort to get the whole family to play charades, so she spends time making the categories and sometimes they're good ones like movies, tv shows, and bands, but this one time she made a category titled "Grandma and Grandpa's friends." No one knew what to remotely do to act out such a category. The category had the last names of my grandparents friends and it was just a ridiculous and no one was able to act it out, so we just discarded that category. When we play with the whole family we usually play girls against guys. The girls are pretty good at charades and usually win, but my uncle Steven and cousin Jesse are always good on the guys team.
The worst players by far are my dad and grandpa, as you can see in the videos below. My dad uses these ridiculous hand gestures that no one understands. We never go over the signals before the game regarding how many words and syllables the word has, but he feels like we do and tries to communicate it to our team, but it never works. It is very funny though to see him try to act it out. My grandpa on the other hand doesn't usually know the contemporary movies in the category he gets. One time he got "Batman: Dark Knight" and had no idea how to act it out to us, and it was one of the funniest turns I've ever seen and everyone was laughing hysterically. In the end, charades brings the family together for some good laughs and funny times. I will always remember our charades experiences at LBI. |