Bakugan and Birthday

The boys brought a card game I have not seen before for Evan's party last night. This one involves magnetic cards. Two cards are placed end-to-end and these little balls are rolled (one by each player) across the "board". If the ball rolls across the card and the magnet imbedded in the ball catches, then the ball pops open to reveal some sort of character inside that is then "standing" on that spot. Each time a ball is rolled across the original cards, another card is added to the field of play. When two of the ball-creatures "stand" on the same card, the card is turned over to reveal game point information and a "battle" ensues.

The lack of carpet in our house allows for a really big playing field. I am sure the manufacturer of Bakugan (pronounced "bah-KOO-gahn") loves their enthusiasm, and will work to provide them with a great variety of cards and magnetized ball-thingies that can stretch out endlessly--- so long as the boys continue to pay, pay, pay for new, new, new gamepieces.
The card play, video game play, cake, plastic sword and light saber practice at our local park, and a round of High School Musical sing-along (to which none of them will ever actually admit althugh it as primarily a kindness to our youngest daughter), and eventually a few hours of forced sleep see us to the end of the party. The parents will be arriving to retrieve their boys-to-men (none of whom called me "Evan's Mom", but all of whom used the "Mrs." form of address which ensures their invitation to return again) in about twenty minutes.