My First "First"

For the first time in my life, I've come in First Place at something. Usually, if I win at all, it's second place. Always second place. It's sort of become a joke.

I've been playing a really fun game on Facebook, called "Hatchlings". I've gotten Kris, Jaime and Susan into it a bit too. For the past few rounds I've played, since April, I've always been in second place. No matter how fast I hunted, I could never catch up to the person who was always in first.

Last month, I noticed that she was gone from my network and I was in first place in the Tacoma Network. I sent her a message and she said she had changed to the Seattle network b/c she had more friends up there, which left me in first place. Yesterday, before the game reset at 4 pm, I was on a mad dash to get to 20,000 total eggs found since the round began on October 1. Last night, Brad issued the Certificates. I also came in 674th place, overall, which isn't bad considering that there are 729,310 people who have the game installed and half that number are active players. Yay Me!

This was the most fun round yet, with tons and tons of surprises and fun, starting with the Halloween eggs. Here's a small sampling of the 55 total "special edition" eggs that were released.

This one hatched into Frankenstein.

One of my FAVE designs of all time.
It hatched into a Siamese cat.

But if you named the Hatchling, "dog", this is what happened to the cat.
This egg hatched into one of three designs: a witch, a vampire and a skeleton.

This is the Golden Donor Egg, available for players who had either filled out offers thru the Hatchlings sponsors or donated towards the cost of the new servers, something I did.
On Election Day, we got hatchable Democrat Donkeys and Republican Elephants, plus this non-hatchable Vote egg.

This was the one released for Veterans/Remembrance Day. It doesn't hatch either.

Next we were treated to the koi eggs, one per day, for a week.

Then the burger eggs began showing up too. If you feed them to your hatchling pet, it maximizes its' happiness.

Thanksgiving saw the release of a plain pumpkin that hatched into a male or female pilgrim, and this corn egg that hatched into male or female Native Americans.

And a turkey of course.
We were next treated to the snowfamily eggs, that showed up one per day, for 7 days again.

This reindeer is soooo cute.

Then Brad really turned on the juice, releasing the 12 days of Christmas eggs. Brad was very creative, in making up the egg designs. The rotary dial phone for "four calling birds" had everyone in hysterics. The Milkmaid egg hatched into 8 different maid/cow designs. My fave is the leaping lord frog.

There were also the present eggs, that didn't hatch until Christmas Day.........into an adorable puppy.We finished off the round with the baby new year eggs, pink and blue, which hatched into either Caucasion or African American boy and girl babies.

The next round just started last night and I am hanging back so that a new friend in my network, who came in second, has a shot at first place, so I'm trying to say one egg behind her.

So now you know why I abandoned my blog over the last few months. Maybe some people will see it as a colossal waste of time, but I had a great time and a lot of laughs with my fellow players.