On the all-important front of Maine team skip-bo, the girls rallied mightily on Friday – they won 3 straight, and the boys only avoided the skunk by winning a close fourth game. That tied the vacation series all up at 4-4. Everything came down to the Saturday show-down. The boys won the first game handily (whooo!). The girls then crushed us the next two games. We refused to leave things in that state, so we played a fourth game, which we won. The series was all tied up at 6-6! It was late, but we HAD to play the tie-breaker. The girls leapt out to a huge lead, but against great odds the boys rallied valiantly to take the lead. The nail-biter game came down to this: I had one card left (a four) and Leona had two cards left. I could not play out, so the play passed to Leona, who drew many cards (I think it was four). She got what she needed, so she played out and the girls won. 13 games of skip-bo played, and the difference was ONE card (and a pretty easily played card at that). I told Leona that it was a bonus Christmas gift to her that Carleton and I let her win.