The Amazing Race 2 =)

Ok, so this years game was a wholeeee lot of fun. Don't you agree, Emily? ("Yes I do") Alright so here's how it went down : We all met at the church on Friday to get the information and begin the race. Brittany, Kristen, DJ, and I all got into the Adam's van and Kristen drove us to their house, where we met up with another team. We got envelopes and were told not to open them until the vans drove away. DJ and I were a group. Our envelope told us to go to Firestone Park (the street) but being the smart batch of cookies we were, we ran to Firestone Park Park. Hah. Yea. We were a tad lost to say the least. But we met up with a very nice looking SOCCER MOM who assisted in helping us find our destination. We found Vicki and then had to track down Emily and Michael. After that, we got clue #1 !! Woo !! The race had begun :)

We opened it up and had a Roadblock. It said to pick a patient person, so naturally, we picked Em. The clue led us to Firestone Metro Park where she Had to flip over like a million blocks to find a clue. After a couple minutes, we got the clue which led us to Parason's. Hah. The highlight of the evening. Each team had to order and scarf down 2 large spaghetti dinners, the garlic bread that came with it, the two sideorders, and 4 large waters. Whew. Michael was quite beastly with that pasta. He ate that as fast as it took me and Em to eat the other. DJ ate all the fries and was about to puke. After we finished that, we were so full and had an "accident" in the parking lot involving me and my stomach. Hah. Well then we got our next clue which was the pitstop for that night. We literally raced the other team to the Kuhn's front porch, where we got 3rd place. I ate some TUMS and then called it a night back at the Keys's.

In the morning, we all had the responsibility to get our lunches packed, wake ourselves up, and get all our luggage into the van before our designated time to leave. Not necessarily in that particular order. Hah. My team left at 9:12, 12 hours after we arrived at the pitstop. We jumped into the van and opened up our clue which led us to the McKinley National Museum. We had to count how many steps led up to the momument and give that number to Clint and Carl atop. 96 was the total. After we gave our answer, we rannnn back down into the van to see our next destination.

That! took us to the DoughBoy statue located at the corner of Graham and some other street in Cuyahoga Falls. Our team almost died running across traffic to get our picture taken with the handsome fellow. Then we couldn't find Vicki. Hah. But when we finally did, we opened up the next clue to find a DETOUR. Our choices were to either walk to 1.8 mile trail at the Gorge Metro Park or ride the platoon boat for $3 a person. We chose the hike. That trail was so beautiful and amazing. Except the fact that DJ made us run half of it. Right when we finished, we saw Kristen's group just beginning. They were saying "WE'RE GOING TO RUN THE WHOOOLE WAY !!" and we were like, "Yea, goodluck with that :)" LOL I love them.

So THEN! the next clue took us to Chapel Hill Mall where our whole team EXCLUDING THE DRIVER had to pile into a photo booth. All we had was 20 so we needed change. I ran into DEB and the lady was like I can't open my register without a purchase. I'm like ugh to you lady. So DJ goes to buy a 99 cent popcorn to get change. Hah. Our pictures turned out funny.

The last clue took us to the Happy Day Visitor's Center at the Cuyahoga Valley place. We ran through this super cool tunnel then found some woman who told us to go find Carl on the Outlook place. Without thinking, we started hiking up, when in fact we COULDDD have driven. But like Emily and I discussed halfway through that sentence, we felt more accomplished hiking :). So we finally found Carl after forever. Then we had to unscramble a verse, which didn't take us too long. After we did that, we had to find Clint at the Kendal Lake Shleter. After forever hiking through the pouring rain and so many wrong turns and stuff we finally found him. It took us an hour and half to get to Clint from the Happy place, when it could have taken us 6 minutes. Oh well. :) Our team was first which was pretty rewarding.

So in the end of this amazingly long post, I'll just close with the fact that this was a blast. I'm still a little sore, but hey, I had a whole lot of fun :) COMMENT. THIS TOOK ME FOREVER.