Firaxis Picnic

     The Firaxis Family Picnic was Friday.  It's usually a pretty fun event.  There's lots of good food, and usually some prizes given away.  There was a bouncy house thing for the kids.  Our girls don't know any of the other kids really, and they haven't as of yet made friends with any of them.  So they mostly play with each other and run back and forth to Jason and I.
     This time Gwyn and Celee did get to participate in a board game test.  Firaxis is doing an exhibit along with the Baltimore Museum of Industry and they were looking for kids to run some things by for the exhibit.  Gwyn doesn't look very enthused does she?  It was interesting to see the dynamic of a table full of girls with one boy who dominates the conversation.  Gwyn and Celee told me later that they just didn't care much about the game so they let him go at it.  Still it bothers me to see girls who are smart and who possess leadership skills let a younger boy dominate the choices of the group.  I guess we pick our battles.  I would hope that in a situation where they did care about what was going on, they would not passively let someone else make group decisions, just because that person was a little pushier.  Hmmm.  Things to ponder.

Anyway, we did have fun on the courts playing basketball and tennis.  I don't know if it will stick, but Lyla showed interest in tennis.  Maybe I'll have a tennis partner some day.  :)