Wood & Paint
each stick 7" long

Mikado- Pick-Up-Sticks, it has become a bit of a tradition for Marco and I. Match of the year! Mikado 2009! Mikado 2008! This is the one! Mikado 2007! Every Summer we have the same routine, we get out the set, or buy a new one if we forgot to bring the set with us, we bring a notebook, we go to the bar in Lacoste, the one with the perfect view called "Cafe de France", we order a Ricard each and one coffee ice cream and we get down to business. This year I am ahead by 15 points, last year Marco's Dad got in on the act. I almost blew Match 2009 by delicately dropping a quarter of the sticks into the center of the table. Ah, technique! It was planned! Marco gets ahead and greedy and loses control, I simply fall behind and lose my temper and then breathe deep and make a comeback! This game is boring! but no, it is not, it is Mikado and I can play it over and over and over again. In New York too, not only on vacation. This year we will have Fall tournament #1.