It's hard to imagine a summer without strange games like bocce, the beanbag toss game and the game to which I don't know the official name where one throws a rope-ball object towards a ladder made of PVC pipe (see the picture). My favorite is bocce, I think because of the primitiveness of it. One hurls a large, heavy sphere at a smaller lighter sphere. The player who's sphere lands closest gets the point. Simple. Very fun. I bet cavemen played a similar game.
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I wonder if Emily remembers playing "Annie, Annie Over" at Grandma and Grandpa's farm in Rochester. That's a workout!
Where I grew up on Minnesota's Iron Range, we took bocce very seriously. There were leagues, bocce courts, and I remember the old Italian men took the game very seriously.
I like it because you don't necessarily have to have athletic skill, and you can play it with a cool summer beverage in one hand.
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