Twilight Town Trek

Chris and I ran a race called Twilight Town Trek. It's an Amazing Race kind of race, but it was in downtown Phoenix. You can only get around using public transportation, or your own two feet. You are allowed to have a cell phone, smart phone, and/or computer to look things up. You can also have people at home that you can call for help. We were given a packet with a bunch of clues. The clues led you to different addresses where you either had to take a picture, collect something or complete a challenge and get signature from a race volunteer. We could go to the locations in any order we wanted and could skip one location of our choice, except the one required location that everyone had to go to. There were also two bonus clues that you could complete.

Here are the clue sheets that we worked with.

We had to get five strangers to stand like this and let us take a picture for one of the bonus clues. These ladies were on their way to see a show at the Dodge Theater and were happy to humor us.

Next, we had to stand by the letters outside the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Court House to spell the word "RACE".

Another bonus challenge was to get 3 bank buildings in one picture. It's kind of hard to see, but that is Wells Fargo, MidFirst Bank and US Bank.

Both team members had to get in this picture with a "social invertebrate" statue. We had walked past these statues on the way to the AZ Science Center the weekend prior, so we knew exactly where these guys were. There was no one around to take our picture, so I was able to set the camera up on another statue and use the timer.

Here, Chris expertly makes and flies a paper airplane. He flew it the right distance on his second try. There were people there that didn't seem like they were ever going to make it.

Chris posing for a picture on a statue near the light rail station at Central and Camelback before we had to run across Camelback to Dutch Brother's coffee for a volunteer signature, then down Central a little ways to a little shop to get a business card. We had 10 minutes to do these 3 things and get back on the next light rail heading south, otherwise we would have had to wait another 20 minutes.

Our final stop, the required location, said it was a kissing booth. It all made sense when we got there and saw the dogs (the race was helping to benefit the humane society). I happily knelt down to give the pup a smooch. The poor dogs were a little tired of kisses by this time.

We totally rocked the puzzle challenge, of course. We had to wait in a bit of a line to complete a simple Spiderman puzzle, but when it was our turn we got it done before anyone else that had been sitting there working for awhile. The funniest part was a challenge where they strapped a pedometer to Chris's head and said he had to make it say 100 in under a minute, any way that he wanted. He took off running in circles and the lady said that most people just stood there and shook their heads. I yelled to Chris that he should just shake his head. He started shaking his head but kept running in circles. It was really cute and funny. I would have taken a picture, but he had the camera in his backpack.

We had so much fun doing this race and can't wait to do another...when I'm not 19 weeks pregnant. We also did awesome! We came in 9th out of 125 people. Our final time (after receiving credit for the bonus challenges) was 1:55:15.