There's a popular TV show that most of you have probably seen, called the Amazing Race. I assume most people have seen it, because whenever I tell anyone that I haven't seen it, they're always shocked. But anyway, even though I've still never seen the show, I participated in a local version of the Amazing Race on Saturday night. The TV show version has a prize of $1 million. Ours was only half a million. :)
A girl from church, Rebecca Barton, decided to put it all together, just because she's cool like that. I'm sure it was a ton of work.
The race consists of different teams performing different tasks, and then at the completion of each task, finding the clue indicating what the next task or destination is. I was on a team with Cami Leeper, Ryan Wells, and Todd Bigelow.
To start off, we had to find a certain park, and then find a person at that park who had our first task, which was to tie the legs of all our teammates together and then run around the bases of a softball field.
After that, we had to go to Mesa High, run up and down the bleachers, around the track, over the river, through the woods, etc. Then we got "road blocked" which means that one of the other teams found a road block sign so they were able to call in an extra task for us to do. For the extra task we had to find a stranger and have him sing Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. Of course, the guy we found was Mexican and didn't know the song, so we had to teach it to him really fast and have him sing it along with us. Wish we had that on video. :)
After completing all the running and singing, the next clue led us to the Mesa Temple, where we received an assignment to go to Kiwanis Park in Tempe and find a certain small obstacle course and complete it. Initially we found the wrong obstacle course, so we ended up doing 2 of them. We definitely got our exercise for the evening.
After that we had to go to a certain ice cream shop. The people at the shop were apparently participating in the race, because they knew what to do. We ordered a certain large frozen yogurt, and at the bottom of the frozen yogurt was the next clue. We all got brain freezes from eating frozen yogurt too fast. Eventually I got impatient and stuck my hand in the frozen yogurt and pulled out the clue. Ryan kept eating what was left. Good thing my hands were clean. :)
The clue in the yogurt directed us to a swimming pool. But before we could get there, someone roadblocked us again, so we had to stop at a gas station and buy a soda. Cami ran in like The Flash and grabbed a soda as I took photo documentation, then she threw the money at the cashier and left. As we were leaving the cashier was saying, "I'm going to need to ring that up for you..." Hopefully she didn't call the cops. :)
We made it to the swimming pool and looked around for the next clue. But there was none to be found. We looked all over, we even made this young couple that was cuddling on the pool steps get up so we could look under them. There was nothing. After about 8 minutes another team showed up, and right after them the moderators showed up and threw some balloons into the pool. We were so fast we had beaten the clues there! :)
We had to jump in the pool (actually only Todd jumped in) and grab a balloon, pop it, get the clue out, find some dice on the bottom of the pool, and then have two people on the team roll two sixes in a row with the dice. It took us quite a while to get the sixes, and by the time we did the other team had left already. That was the last task, and we just had to race back to the home base. We made it just behind the other team.
I griped a little bit about having to wait for the last clue, so the winning team took the high road and declared us the winners, even though we really got second place. But either way, lots o' fun was had by all.
You can view my photos from the event here.
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