Experience Albania: Travel, Pictures, History, Culture

What happens when four PCV’s (plus a visiting girlfriend) hang out together on a “too hot to go out” kind of an afternoon?

 You guessed it: a brand new international addition of our own American game comes to life.  A combination of Dan and Sheila’s incredibly accurate recolections of Monopoly’s rules and ways, plus the drawing and writing skills of Ryan, James, and I made Shqipopoly a reality.

 Details, details, details … from the morgages to the rent increase to hotel management, we got most of it down.  But with an Albania twist in Albanian ways, of course.  Chance cards became “Fat” cards, which means luck in Albanian.  Properties became tributes to some of our favorite - and not so favorite - places and parts of our new home.

 Fun for all when resources are low and the heat is high.  Who knows what we’ll come up with next?

Note: can you find Katie (me) in the above photo?  Don’t let the long hair throw you off!