My Favorite Holiday Tradition

My favorite holiday tradition is going to my grandparents' house to see my grandparents and my cousins. We all bring a lot of food such as corn, green beans, peas, rolls, ham, and a lot more. We also bring tons of desserts. There's soft, warm cookies, perfect creamy key lime pie that melts in your mouth, sweet coconut cream pie, and again, a lot more. After that, we sometimes play some board games, usually some games on the SNES in the basement, but then almost every year, we get a few people together to play two games. The first game is Mexican Ping-Pong. You play this on a normal ping-pong table with a normal ping-pong ball and a normal ping-pong paddle. The only difference is that you need to let the ball bounce on the floor once before hitting it, but that's actually not the only difference. You can hit it anywhere, as long as it bounces off of the table at least once when you hit it. The game is also played in order of age, either youngest to oldest or oldest to youngest, where the youngest person goes first, then the next youngest after that, then the next, all the way up to the oldest, and when it gets to the oldest, it goes back to the youngest and repeats. If it's oldest to youngest, it's the same thing but backward. The ways you get out are by either letting the ball bounce on the floor twice or hitting the ball without it bouncing on the table. The other game we play is a game called Body Body. We use string to tie off an area of the basement, so we are only allowed to walk around in a small portion of the basement. Before the round starts, get the same number of cards as there are people playing. We use Skip-Bo cards, but any card works. So, for us at least, all green cards are citizens, all blue cards are doctors, and all Skip-Bo cards are mafias. There should be one mafia and one doctor, and the rest should be citizens, but we usually have two of each because we play with so many people. You each draw a card, but you don't tell anyone what you got. When the game starts, the lights are turned off. Everyone has to wander around in the dark, and there is no speaking or making sound. If you accidentally make sound, everyone can hear it and the mafias will usually go towards you. When a mafia encounters a citizen or a doctor, they slit their throat with their hand. When your throat is cut, you are dead and must lie on the floor and not move. When a doctor encounters someone who's dead on the floor, they pat their shoulder to let them know they've been revived. When a citizen encounters someone who's dead on the floor, they call out "body body" and everyone freezes except one person who goes to turn on the lights. When the lights are on, the dead people are removed from the game, usually to sit out of bounds. Then, all of the alive people gather in a circle. They have to guess who the mafia is. Anyone can accuse anyone else, even the mafia can accuse someone. They usually say why they believe that the person was the mafia just to make the accusation more believable. When they have the accusations, someone asks for all in favor of killing off the accused. You can only vote for one person to be removed. If more than half the people vote on removing them, that person is killed and has to sit out for the rest of the game. If they were the mafia, they admit it and the game is over, the citizens and doctors win. The only way the mafia can win is by killing off everyone. Seeing my cousins is one of my favorite holiday traditions, and that is exactly why.