City Race Fun!

On a whim, I signed my husband and I up for a "City Race" a few weeks ago. It's sort of a shortened Amazing Race type activity. It was on our 5 year wedding anniversary...I thought we'd either have tons of fun or kill each other :) Luckily it was the former!

We got to the start at a city park and there were lots of teams milling around! We got out buttons, our instructions and our first challenge. Luckily I'd read some trivia the night before - so I did awesome on the first trivia questions. We got our clues and we were off :)

We ran around the city (well walked quickly) - solving clues, exploring places we would not otherwise have visited, and enjoying the city. We even crashed a wedding (oops). We learned so much about the city - I can't wait to go back.

We had three hours to finish the "race" and did so in about 2:13. We knew a lot of teams had come in before us, but in this case it was as much about how many answers we got right as it was about the time. We turned in our clues and found an awesome cupcake bakery nearby to wait for all the teams to finish!

After indulging in awesome cupcakes - we went back to the park and listened to all the answers. We did ok, missing a few - but it seemed that most people did pretty well! Then they listed off the top ten finishers. we thought for sure we'd be in the top ten...but they got down to five, four...we were ready to walk away...then they called our name!

We won! Crazy as it sounds ;) We came in first place. The best part - we got six more of those awesome cupcakes!!! and some bragging rights. I guess we did better than just having some fun! I highly recommend the City Race!

Have you ever thought about being on the Amazing Race? Would you go with your significant other?