halloween race 2010...

The Friday before Halloween we had a really fun opportunity to participate in a Halloween race with our friends the Porters and Jensons. It was like a mini Amazing Race. It was SO AMAZINGLY FUN!! The theme was Alice in Wonderland so all teams had to dress up in costumes from the film. Each team was about 6 people and there were 20 teams. We all met at the starting location to receive our first clue. It was a magic eye picture. When you finally are able to see it it said: "Orem City Center Park". So off we raced to the park where we had to slide down the park slide and at the bottom was a table with small cup cakes and glass bottles. The cupcake said "eat me" on it and the bottle said "drink me". Inside the cupcake was a hard bean and once the bottle was empty you could read the clue which said to meet Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum at the museum. Putting the two together quickly lead us to our next location the Bean Museum on BYU campus. When we arrived there and ran inside we were given a CD to play in our car. We then listened to a rapping Caterpillar give us our next clue. We had to decipher his rap to find our next location. We lost a little time on this leg because we heard him say to go to a place where he gets his supplies (a smoke shop) and the word Freedom. So we googled smoke shops on Freedom Blvd, found one and raced there...only we hadn't heard him say the word Center too. After about a 10 minute misstep we realized that there must be a smoke shop on the corner of Freedom and Center St! So off we went. Our next clue was a paper with a bunch of pictures of fat cats on it. There is a fun center here in provo called Fat Cats. Once we arrived there we received a Mad Hatter had that had a sort of Mad Gab sentence on it leading us to the University Mall to find a place called Swanky Hats. We were give a white rose and a playing card with the queen of Hearts on it and told to make the rose red any way that we could and take it to the queen of hearts. I had a painted red heart on my face so we rubbed it on my face and made the white rose red! The clue to our next location was hard to figure out. On the playing card above the "Q"'s in the corner were written the letter D. We finally figured out that it was leading us to Dairy Queen. "DQ" Once there we got our last clue which lead us to the steps of the Utah County Court house where we officially clocked in our time. We came in 9th out of 20 teams. There were many teams that had to text into the organizing couple to receive help. This got you a 15 minute penalty. We were just happy that we didn't have to text in at all. It was so fun and I can't wait to do it again next year. The couple who organized it have done a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory race and a Pirates of the Caribbean one too. I can't wait to see what next years race will bring! TOO FUN!