Turning Seattle Into Provo

Turning Seattle Into Provo

Posted by Kristy

Life has been busy lately, summer is over and with it brought the famous Earl Reunion (click here for a summary) and Brad's wedding; but now it's back to seminary and long hours. It's still tough to wake up that early but we're teaching the New Testament this year and it's already been a lot easier to teach and stay awake. There are only so many ways to teach, "repent or be destroyed."

One day I saw a Groupon advertising a scavenger hunt competition in Seattle called "The Urban Goose Chase" and I knew it was something I needed to participate in. There are some people, like my husband, that simply hate scavenger hunts but I love them. I miss doing random things like this in Provo. In Provo if you see someone climbing over your fence late at night you think, "Oh, someone must be playing Fugitive" ( I love that game) but in Seattle you'd probably just get shot.

So on the 15th from 1-4 pm I grabbed 4 of my friends and we formed a team I dubbed "The Born Losers." It's my dad's favorite team name. To participate in the game you need to download the scavenger app and then proceed to accept and complete the various challenges and take a picture as evidence. It was a lot of fun. There were 20 teams and we were all competing for $250. Here's some of our challenges.

Teammates: Todd, Emilie, Summer and Jordan

Challenge was "Look like you have a bright idea"

High-five 5 people simultaneously 

Parkour 

Find a celebrity and get their autograph

(if you zoom in on my arm it says "love Justin")

Take a picture of someone taking a picture of you

Form a pyramid, must be 3 levels

Make or find a large rubber band ball

Have a thumb war with a policeman

Find someone with a Nirvana shirt

Handstand in an elevator

Body outline at a public place

Our pathetic attempt at making a ship in a bottle

Solve a theorem with chalk

Each team member must stick gum on the gum wall

(that place is the grossest)

Paint your face green and perform an act of love

Make a hat out of soap boxes

Make a pirate hat out of newspaper

Get a body part waxed

Simultaneously read 4 different New York Times bestsellers

It was a lot of fun. Even with all of the challenges we completed there were still a lot more left. We ended up scoring 3rd place, and were only a few points away from the 2nd place team. It was all pretty random but it was fun and we'd definitely do it again. Next time we're coming home with the money.