Board Games at Blossom Hill Crafts

Looking to escape the heat and meet new people? Blossom Hill Crafts in Campbell is hosting a board game bootcamp! The store manager, Blake Propach, will be teaching the board game Carcassonne and running game sessions for folk to practice playing it. All levels of board game experience are welcome to join!

Event Details

-The event is free.
-Downtown Campbell has tons of free nearby parking (details below).
-Attendees are welcome to bring outside food and drink to the event.
-The venue is a five-minute walk to VTA Light Rail station (details below).
-Blossom Hill Crafts will have copies of Carcassonne and a vast array of other board games for guests to browse.

The Board Game

In the game Carcassonne, players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape represented on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples in one of the areas on it: in the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, in the cloister as a monk, or in the field as a farmer. When that area is complete that meeple scores points for its owner.

Parking

-Check out downtown Campbell’s parking map here.
-Tons of free no-time-limit parking in the First Street Parking Garage and Second Street Garage.
-Free 2-hour parking in the lots by Hyde Park, Khartoum, and (if you're lucky) Water Tower Kitchen (becomes no-time-limit parking at 6pm).
-Free 2-hour street parking spots are usually available along Orchard City Dr, Civic Center Dr, and E Campbell Ave though you might have to circle a bit (becomes no-time-limit parking at 6pm).
-More free no-time-limit street parking in the residential neighborhoods along North 3rd St, N 2nd St and N 1st St.

VTA Light Rail & Caltrains

-There's a Light Rail station a five minute walk from the store, in case you've got a Light Rail station near your home or workplace.
-If you're near a Caltrains station, you can take it to downtown Mountain View and walk across the platforms to catch a Light Rail to Downtown Campbell.
-Alternatively you can take Caltrains to Diridon station in San Jose, walk a few blocks to the Light Rail "San Fernando" station in San Jose and ride that to Downtown Campbell. We