Game night tonight was Matt Lavine, Matt Anderson, Mike and Kathleen and Laura and myself. Matt had just returned from a trip to Paris, and as he was in the area, I asked him to pick up Himalaya, one of the contenders for this year's Spiel des Jahres. He found it in a little game shop after lunch one day and said it was the one souvenier he brought back except pictures. Well, we just had to break it open and play it tonight then, even though it was for 4 people, we merged into teams to make things work. Each of us was a Sherpa in the mountains, planning out our trips before each month, and then executing the plans to pick up goods and fulfill orders around the himalayan mountains. It's a lot of fun to try and outguess your opponents and pick up the valuable cubes, and there was an interesting mechanism to have balance be the key to victory. After 12 months of journeying, Matt Anderon emerged the victor, and we look forward to playing again soon.