The challenge started by the teams splitting up and attacking the clues. Many of which required deciphering and some of which were pretty straight forward. Find a blue fire hydrant. Find a house with no grass. Find a yellow house. Solve this strange riddle and drive to the middle of no where and take a photo of dirt.
By mid day we were HUNGRY! So we stopped for our packed lunches. With a budget of only $20 per girl we were watching our pennies very carefully. Then it was off to take as many photos as possible before shut down time of 11 pm sharp! Dinner at our family's homes-bless them for feeding all of us hungry ladies! And driving like mad to finish up and get to Patti's house.
At 11 pm we all gathered in Patti's back yard and had a big camping slumber party. Lots of the girls, knowing that they wanted to start again at 6 am, did not want to get out of their clothes. Man did the competitiveness kick in!
Do you have any idea how early 5 am comes when you go to bed around midnight and are awake listening to asthmatic girls waiting to jump up and rush to their aid should they have an attack in the middle of the night??? I think I slept maybe a total of 2 hours? Gloria about the same? And I swear, poor Patti, I don't think she slept a wink more than an hour total!
Day three. Dragging. Very. Slowly. And getting yelled at by excited girls, hurry up! You are slowing us down! Yaaaaawwwwn, coming coming I mumbled and we got on our way again.
Back to the fire station, out to Huntington Park, down to Redondo Beach, out to Simi Valley and cruising the Boulevard (Ventura Blvd that is) I swear I drove more than I would have if we went to Vegas and back!
Around 3 we wrapped up and headed to check in-the other two teams were already done and going home. We finished around 4:15 and all the girls made it to their parents. I was out cold by 6pm and slept like a baby!
All in all I would do it again in a heart beat. I swear, I had more fun than they did! I love hanging out with the girls, they are never short on laughs!
Cant wait to do it again next year!
Hugs,
♥♥ Julie
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