I am enjoying the Legend of Zelda DLC Pack 1. With it you get a whole bunch of new armor that you have to find throughout the world and a whole bunch of new challenges. The most important challenge for me is the Sword Trials. This is old school gaming at its best. I say old school because there are no breaks and there is no way to save your progress. Also, if you die you start all over. It is frustrating but I do like a challenge. With 45 separate floors or challenges broken up into 3 fifteen floor sets there is a lot of work to be done.
You start the floors with nothing. You only have the abilities that you have mastered with you Sheikah Slate. The Sheikah Slate is a magical tablet that grants you different powers like generating bombs, stopping time and mastery over magnetic items. With it you can get started picking off bad guys. You have to find everything you can as you go through the floors to help you through all the trials. It has been fun to do and I made it through the first 15 so far. I hope that I can work through the rest of them to upgrade my sword. Then I will attempt to play the game on the hard or master level.
In what looks to be becoming a yearly tradition, today we went to the Wellfleet Audubon Society for a family hike. This time we were headed there with friends. Allison’s friend from college was up with her family. They have three kids and our kids fall right between theirs in ages. Andrew had a friend to play with and then Eva had two to play with. All the kids got along with each other really well overall.
The hike was lead by two people from the Audubon Society and they told us a lot about the area. We also got nets to use to catch fish and crabs and more. We also observed and caught the fiddler crabs in the area. There are tons of fiddler crabs. I love watching them as they zip in and out of their series of tunnels. I took along my 360 camera and when I got a chance I put it in fiddler crab city and then walked away to let it record without anyone around. Slowly the crabs came out of their holes and went back about their business. It is a tough thing to do because there were people coming and going over and over. I wasn’t really able to get the best video with lots of activity from the crabs. I’ll have to try another time when I have more time.
After our adventure we went back to Allison’s friend’s parent’s house for a cook out. The kids amused themselves with tons of chalk drawings on the driveway. They also spent time running around chasing after each other. Dinner was really good and we had fun visiting. It was nice for Allison to have some time with her friend.
