Jan 5th: Mom and dad and I have been playing a running game of Shanghai since sometime last year. Whoever has the highest score at the end of a quarter gets to pick a place for lunch or dinner and the other two have to buy their meal. Then our score starts over for the next quarter. So far we have each won...I won the first quarter, dad won the second, and then mom won this last leg (we didn't restart after the 3rd quarter because we didn't play very much). This was the first game of the new quarter...and as always, it was a great time!