Bananagrams anyone?

What word is associated with bunches, splits, peel, and dump(??)? That's right. BANANAGRAMS! Lisa sent this game to us for Christmas and we finally played a couple of rounds tonight. I never heard of 'dump' being associated with bananas - is it what apes do? Lisa, explain that one to me. You never know what games Lisa will pull out of her hat. She finds everything!

Everyone gets 21 letter tiles and and turns them face down on the table. The rest of the tiles are in the center of the table. Someone yells "Split!" and you hurry to make your own mini Scrabble game with your 21 tiles. When a player runs out of tiles he/she yells "Peel!" and everyone takes a tile. If a player is stumped, he/she yells "Dump!" and trades a tile for 3 tiles out of the pile in the middle of the table. The game is over when all the tiles in the middle of the table are gone and the screaming monkey who has no tiles left yells "Bananas!" Fast moving and fun - probably more fun with 4 people. Different versions of the game to play are Banana Smoothie, Banana Cafe and Banana Solitaire. I'm sure Dad, Meegan, Monna, Lisa, Elise, Cari, Marianne and John can think of other ways as well. Creativity eludes me at times! I thought the picture with Kimber's screaming monkey was appropriate for this post. Look at how beat up that poor monkey is! It's been out in the rain, loved on by Kimber, stolen by Carlie for months - yet it lives and screams on. Especially in the middle of the night kicking it on the way to the bathroom in the dark. AAUUGGHH! Kimber sure loves her stuffies.

Am I the only one who has a hard time coming up with something to write in a blog? This is the best I can do for now. Thanks for the inspiration Lisa Beesa!