The Stake Young Single Adults planned an event that took place tonight based on that show. The leaders split everyone into groups of 5, also they were taking pictures throughout the whole thing. I was in the only all-girl group. In order to get our clues at each location, we had to find the leaders that had on hats.
So first off our groups had to either solve a Sudoku puzzle or make 5 baskets. At first my group tried the Sudoku thing while 2 of our group tried the basketballs, since there were only 4 basketballs & like 7 groups. After we figured out that it was pick one, we ditched Sudoku and made our 5 shots. However, we were the 2nd to last team to leave the stake center.
Our next clue was to go to someone's house. Our driver, Amber, & two other members of our team, Amanda and Candace, had NO idea where to go. Luckily, Anna & I knew the streets in our stake center and we figured out where to go. When we got to the house, we had to ring the doorbell and do the chicken dance. The lady who answered took our pictures while we were dancing. We were then given the next clue.
Which led us to Chuck E. Cheese. I was able to figure it out quickly and we were on our way. We weren't that far behind the pack. When we got there, we had Amanda & Candace run in to find out what we had to do. Apparently we had to score a certain amount of points on skeeball. If you didn't score all the points, then we had to wait 5 minutes before getting our clue. I am pretty sure that nobody made the points. We ended up waiting 5 minutes and got our clue, which led us to Border's at the mall.
Our driver, Amber, was really good at taking directions that we were giving her because she admitted she had no idea where things were. We got to the bookstore in 2nd place! We had to find our leaders to get the next clue. Luckily, I saw Sister Steele and we just followed her to the meeting spot in the cafe. Other teams were asking people they saw in hats if they were with us, but ended up not finding them for awhile.
Amber just drove around the parking lot while the rest of the team went inside. Our clue at the bookstore was either count the books in a section or find a book with the words Amazing and Race in it and show it to the Steeles. The words didn't have to be on the same page. So, after looking for a couple of minutes in the sports section, very smart Anna suggested we find the dictionary! So after getting the dictionary and getting our clue, we ran outside and got back in the truck to go to our next location, Krispy Kreme.
Every member of the team had to go into Krispy Kreme and put on paper hats. We got our picture taken and then one person in the team had to feed everyone else on the team a donut. The people being fed couldn't use their hands. Our team was the first ones at Krispy Kreme and the leaders there weren't ready for us; they didn't think we would get there so quickly! So after they were done getting the donuts, we had Amber feed us the donuts. She fed Candace first and while she was trying to do that, Brother Reed was constantly stopping us to get good pictures. Our team was like, "We're in a race, here!" So when Amber went to feed me next, I was telling her to just stuff it all in. And these donuts were not even the fresh, hot, glazed donuts. No, these were filled donuts. After taking two bites, Amber finally just stuffed the donut in my mouth. I got chocolate icing and custard filling all over my face at that point. When we were finishing all the other teams started coming in.
We ran to the truck and started going, but all of a sudden another team was outside too! We are pretty sure they cheated during the donut thing. They blocked our way in the parking lot and along the freeway. We were on our way to the last location, the 48th Street church building.
At the light on Southern & Higley, the two cars were waiting for the turn light to turn green. We were all shocked when the other team's driver started to go into the intersection just before the light turned green! We parked very haphazardly in the parking lot and ran into the building. I actually slipped on the grass at this point, I think my knee might be bruised, but I was ok. We ran into the building and got our card signed & timestamped by the final leader. We ended up in 1st place!
So, because of us being smart and fast, we were able to go from 6th place in the beginning to 1st! It was crazy, but so much fun! When we went to get the provided water from the jug, our entire teams' hands were shaking! We all had so much adrenaline and sugar going through us that we were very hyped up!
We had such a blast! You would never think of how intense the competition will be until you are experiencing it.
Once everyone was back at the church building, including the people who took pictures, Brother Ashley took all the memory cards and put together a slide show. We all calmed down and were drinking water & (other teams) having ice cream sundaes. Our team decided that we were too hyped up to eat more sugar. After the last memory card came in, we all sat down and laughed at all the pictures that were taken.
I am hoping to get a copy of the pictures and I will post them on my Facebook and in another post.
Just gotta say it one more time: The Amazing Race tonight was CRAZY FUN!!!
