Beating the family at Chinese Checkers in Upstate NY -- On a brand new Chinese Checkerboard.

We just got back from our annual family vacation wherein our family hangs around the VRBO house and plays games every evening. I mean plays games when not obsessively checking our phones for critical twitter updates from, for example, dudes post their dubs, etcetera etcetera. And realizing over and over again, with the same shock and horror as the first time we realized it, that we have terrible internet service. 

Anyway, I say all this to report that when playing Chinese Checkers with the children, I always play to win. One day, the master might become the student but until then, I kick some major ass. Ella asked me after one of her whoopings how long I've been playing Chinese Checkers and I told her "three times as long as you've been alive." Right after that she started running around telling everyone she almost beat me, with great pride. The bar was lowered on bragging rights is my only point. 

Also she didn't almost beat me. I won by at least 15 moves.

I took this photo after my grandma died and I was getting all nostalgic about how many games of Chinese Checkers I'd played on this board with her. I probably spent dozens of hours maybe hundreds of hours staring at it, plotting my devious hopping strategies:

I guess I never actually read the words on this
Chinese checkerboard.

I sent the photo to a few friends. One of them wrote back pretty instantly. And, yeah. We don't use this Chinese Checkerboard anymore.