settlers of catan

i've blogged about settlers before, but we brought the game out again the other night and i had to retail my victory. i began playing settlers last may when chris was in mexico for the month of may and i was in provo lacking a social life. every day after work, not kidding every day, i would go to the gym and then meet up with quinn to play settlers. the game is set up to have 3 or more players so we would usually call one or two of our unsuspecting friends and drag them along a 2 or 3 game round of settlers. by the middle or end of may all our friends had caught onto our little trick and conveniently found other things to do. so alas, quinn and i resorted to playing 2-man settlers and we would go for 15 points instead of the traditional 10. when chris got home at the beginning of june our settlers continued, but chris wasn't nearly as excited about it as we were. we played occasionally. then summer came to an end and chris and i got engaged. we honestly didn't play settlers for months. but sunday night i was over at quinn's and we found ourselves with nothing to do so he, lex and i broke out the board and battled it out catan style. i was sitting on a brick and wood gold mine and to make things better i had both the brick and wood ports...there was no stopping me. the longest road card and a victory point sealed the deal and i was crowned king--er queen--of catan. the taste of victory is sweet.