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Time for a Pop Quiz

Spend some time online in your San Diego, CA apartment this week. Our Arrive Mission Valley Blog has a few online quizzes for you to take for fun! Whether you want to find out if you’re smarter than a fifth grader, what movie represents your life, or if you’re an ice cream expert, it’s fun to share the results with friends and family, not to mention our apartment community. 1. How Well Do You Remember The US State Names? 2. Can You Draw A Straight Line In Your Mind? 3. Which Movie Is Actually Based On Your Life? 4. Are you the true ice cream expert? Take this quiz to find out! 5. Are You Actually Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Quizzes offer good ways to learn about something. They can also be a lot of fun. QuizYourFriends is a great website where you can easily make a quiz that you can link and share on your social media accounts. You can also take popular quizzes that other people have made and posted on the website. It’s fun to do and you just might learn something while you’re browsing along. If you want to check out some other fun quizzes, you can even search on YouTube. IQ Tests , for example, is a great channel that has been around since 2009, adding over 1,000 online quizzes to date. Categories of quizzes range from trivia to intelligence, and even some great personality tests. The videos are relatively short too, so they won’t take up much of your time at all! We hope you have a great month in San Diego! Are you planning on dressing up for Halloween? Share your costume ideas, frightening experiences, and holiday traditions by leaving a comment below. You can also share what quiz you would make if you were to publish one online. We’d love to hear all about it!

How to Host Game Night A Simple Guide

Welcome back to the Arrive Mission Valley Blog! Back in April, we recommended one of our favorite board games to residents of our apartment community in San Diego, CA. To follow up, we thought it’d be a good idea to put together a simple guide to hosting game night in your apartment. Below are three essential items of every game night. 1. Games This is no secret: it’s hard to host game night without games. Sure, if you’ve already invited or planned for other people to bring games, then you don’t have to worry about providing this game night necessity. It’s always a good idea, however, in our opinion, that every game night host should have a few game options available. If you’re looking for some great new board games to own, we suggest checking out the following websites: CoolStuffInc Miniature Market Amazon 2. Chairs and Table A simple way to help your guests have an enjoyable time is by providing adequate seating and ample space to play the games you’ve prepared. Comfort is an important part of your guests’ experience. Games can take anywhere from minutes to hours to complete, so providing comfortable seats can really make a difference. 3. Snacks Providing great snacks on game night will make it so that everyone remembers you as a number-one host. Check out these 23 no-mess snacks by Autostraddle. We love this article because game night is so often a hands-on activity, which requires a lot of touching of game components and cards. If you don’t want people leaving greasy finger stains on your game pieces, provide snacks that leave little residue. Also, you may want to keep napkins and hand sanitizer within reach of all players. What’s your favorite thing about hosting game night? Share in the comments below. Thanks for reading!

The Best TV Shows According to Reddit

Welcome back to the Arrive Mission Valley Blog! Today, we’re sharing the best television shows as recommended by people from all over the world. Summer is the perfect season to dive into a new television series in your apartment. Let’s see what the users of Reddit have to say about the best TV shows. If you don’t already know, Reddit is a website where people can post content such as links, text posts, and images, which people can comment and vote on. The more popular the comments in the post, the more points they receive. In thinking of popular television shows that our residents watch in their San Diego, California apartments, we found a great Reddit thread about the best TV series. Here are a few of the most popular suggestions. The following descriptions were pulled from IMDB.com . Avatar: The Last Airbender “In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.” Breaking Bad “A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family's future.” Fringe “An F.B.I. agent is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.” The Office “A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium.” Parks and Recreation “The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.” Here are a few of our favorites: Friends “Follows the personal and professional lives of six 20 to 30-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan.” Monk “Adrian Monk is a brilliant San Francisco detective, whose obsessive compulsive disorder just happens to get in the way.” New Girl “After a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men. Although they find her behavior very unusual, the men support her - most of the time.” A Series of Unfortunate Events “After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets.”

Board Game of the Month Jamaica

This month, we thought it would be fun to share one of our favorite board games. Take some time to learn and play Jamaica, a game set in pirate-ruled seas 1675. Originally released in 2007, the board game Jamaica has received great reviews from players on Boardgamegeek, Amazon, and other websites. As pirates, players are faced with a great race. Whoever wins, receives a mountain of gold and glory. But don’t worry, there is so much gold (some hidden and some on other player’s ships) that you can pick up — or steal — along the way. Jamaica is a really great game that definitely deserves a spot in everyone’s board game collection. It’s really simple to learn — the rules are printed out on an almost treasure-map-like rulebook with detailed pictures and instruction. Teaching friends a new game can often take more time than wanted, but Jamaica will only tie up their attention for a few minutes at most. If you’re planning on hosting a game night in your apartment, make sure you include a game that’s easy to learn, fun to play, and keeps you entertained throughout the entire length. Jamaica offers all of that and more. As you invite friends or family to our Arrive Mission Valley apartment community for a night of games, they might be expecting some common party game like Apples to Apples, Curses, or Codenames. Surprise them with a pirate-themed racing game filled with cannon fire, looting, and cursed treasure. Surely, you’ll feel more like a pirate than you’ve probably felt your whole life. To make things even more fun, invite everyone involved to dress up in character, speak like a pirate, and prepare to force each other to walk the plank. You can read more about Jamaica by visiting the Top 10 Board Games blog . Read their review for this and other games. If they’ve recently updated their list, you can read about Jamaica by visiting boardgamegeek.com . Share your favorite board game in the comments below. Or, comment about your favorite place to shop for board games in San Diego, California.

Entertaining Movies of 2017

Today, we’re sharing a few movies of 2017 that were downright entertaining to watch. Take some time to sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie or two with a close friend from San Diego, California. Movie night just got better with something tense, frightening, life-changing, or even laughable in your Arrive Mission Valley apartment with these suggestions. The Foreigner “Jackie Chan returns to the big screen in this intense thriller about a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts when his teenage daughter dies in a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.” IT What are you afraid of? Based on Stephen King’s terrifying novel about an evil clown that shapeshifts into children’s worst fears, IT is sure to scare audiences of all ages. Some critics named IT as one of the scariest movies ever made. Battle of the Sexes Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in this film based on the 1973 tennis match between Women’s World #1 Billie Jean King and men’s champ Bobby Riggs, an event that became known as the Battle of the Sexes. Reaching over 90 million viewers around the world, this became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time. Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle The Kingsman is an independent, international intelligence agency whose ultimate goal is to keep the world safe. In this highly-anticipated sequel, our heroes travel across the world and join another spy organization to face a new threat. Share your most entertaining movies of 2017 by leaving a comment below. We’re excited to hear about more great movies that made last year a wonderful year. Thanks for reading!

Picnics in January

Even though it’s January, living in San Diego means that you can picnic all year round. Check out these top spots for picnics all around our great city. Arrive Mission Valley is a centrally-located apartment community right in the middle of all things happening in San Diego. Today, we share recipes for your next picnic. Get dressed, get out, and get eating in San Diego this month! Layered Cobb Salad This recipe only takes about 35 minutes to prepare, but it’s really simple, and your preparation brings a beautiful and delicious food everyone will love. Chop up some Iceberg lettuce, dice tomatoes, mince onions, drain a couple cans of corn, cook some hard boiled eggs and peel and dice them, cook and crumble some bacon, and throw everything together for a range of tastes, textures, and temperatures that altogether welcome spring and summer. Italian Pinwheels Pinwheel rollups are some of our favorite foods for a sunny day: they’re cool and delicious, and you can put any spin on them to fit them to your tastes. This recipe calls for three flour tortillas, salami, pepperoni slices, provolone cheese, and romaine lettuce for the main fillers and cream cheese, bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, and chopped red and banana peppers for the spread. All combined, these rollups will give your meal a spicy-sweet twist. Key Lime Pie Dip Pie is a picnic tradition, but if you don’t want to make a whole pie, serve this key lime pie dip instead. This dip is even sweeter and lighter than the original, and — because it’s a dip — serves way more people than your traditional pie. Pair with your favorite wafers, cookies, or crackers for an easy dessert for your picnic. Watermelon Lemonade No matter the weather, there’s nothing more important than staying hydrated. This watermelon lemonade is so delicious and fresh it’s sure to become a picnic staple for your future adventures. It’s a great way to keep you feeling cool and refreshed in any weather, especially if you want an extra addition besides water to add some excitement to your picnic. Share your favorite picnic recipes by leaving a comment below. Thanks for reading!