Wi!??!?! Oui!!!

I think it happened last Tuesday. Or maybe it was Wednesday? I can't remember. Matt picked me up from work and we stopped by Target on our way home to pick up something for dinner. Matt has been coveting a Wii since they came out in November (prolly before), but since we didn't pre-order, we knew it might be a long time. So after we got our foodstuffs, we made a sweep by electronics. Lo and behold there were not just one, but FOUR Wiis sitting there calmly in the electronics case under lock and key. Matt and I both did a double-take and then looked incredulously at one another. Nope. No mirage. Just four Wiis. We quickly located a Target employee and asked for two of them. See, not only did we want one, but my aunt and uncle had been searching for one for a Christmas gift for my cousin since … well before Christmas. They'd ended up giving her a WiiOweYou instead. Even more incredibly, Target gave us no hassles about purchasing two of them.

After having played this fine system and watching my six-year-old cousin beat the pants off all of us at bowling, I can fully attest to what an innovative system this is. It is entirely intuitive (in fact, I think it helps if you're a complete video game novice) and really fun to play. Owing to the fact that we're still about 70% of the way thru Final Fantasy XII, we haven't yet cracked Zelda, but we've been playing a lot of Wii Sports. Boxing and tennis are my faves, but the game is very enjoyable and my cousins seemed to find hours of play just in creating Miis (little avatar things that represent you in various games).