The kids and I are on the move again! We are almost to the point of heading back "home" to pack up all our worldly belongings to move to our new humble abode. Part of this process involves taking the kids to stay with their Aunt and Uncle for a couple weeks while Dad and I go work ourselves to death moving everything! LOL
So what on earth does this have to do with burying cows? (My Mom and sister are totally smiling right now because they know!) When I was a kid growing up in Kansas we use to play this travel game. You see in the middle section of the United States you see a lot of 2 things while you are driving. Cows and graveyards! So our family travel game was called "Bury Your Cows". What we did is anytime you passed cows that are on your side of the street you count them and add them all together. Both sides count and add frantically! LOL BUT, when you pass a graveyard on your side of the street you have to bury your cows and start over! The "object" of the game is to be the one who has the most cows when you arrive at your destination.
Since I have lived on the West Coast for the last 20 years (Where you don't see many cows or graveyards for some reason.) I had practically forgotten about this game. But, since we have been spending a lot of time in the car lately the game has re-emerged! The kids LOVE it! We have been playing in teams. Whoever in on the drivers side is one team and the passengers side is another. One person is the cow spotter. (Like the driver who has a hard time counting and driving!) The other person is the cow counter. There is lots of counting and adding in your head for this game! hehehe
It has been fun to re-live a little of my childhood with my kids! (My sister and I spent many a happy hour counting and burying cows.) They are totally amazed that this is what we did to entertain ourselves back in the dark ages! So, when they get tired of watching DVD's, listening to books-on-tape, listening to MP3's, playing Leapsters and Gameboys we carry on with our game of "Bury Your Cows!" LOL
P.S. Please pray for my children who will be away from Mom for the 1st time ever! Also please pray for my sweet sister-in-law who will be taking care of 6 kids (my 3 and her 3.) 5 of which are 7 and under! (And did I mention she is pregnant?!?!) Lastly, feel free to pray for a successful move and for ME to do okay being away from my "babies" for the first time ever!
What a fun game! We never played that game... but then again, we usually didn't drive more than 1.5 hours to travel anywhere (and that was an eternity enough).
We used to play that game! Only, because there were so many of us, it was "every man for himself". And we counted horses instead of cows. The first person to see the horse and shout "ZIP!" got to count the horse and the first person to see the graveyard and yell, "Bury all your zips!" got to keep his score while everyone else went back to zero. It was great fun. :)
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