A Fun Night

Last Saturday we had our annual car scavenger hunt for the youth group at church. It really was a blast. There were 7 (it was 7 Rebecca) teams that went out around the communities of Palmyra, New Salisbury, Corydon, Floyds Knobs, Galena, and Greenville, and figured out coded clues and then did whatever the clues told them to do. My team was one of the smallest teams....I think one of two that only had 5 people. I had Carly, Thomas, Patrick, and Sam in the car with me. We did not get to all of the locations, but since we knew that we would not make it to all of them, we tried to focus on getting the clues that had high point values. As it turned out, we got 2nd place out of the 7 teams. I really wanted to get first, because I am highly competitive and always want to win, but all things considered.....having such a small group and getting second was pretty awesome. The larger groups were able to drop members off at different locations and get things done a lot faster, so that is an advantage to having a large group. I will have to keep that in mind for next year!

Anyway, it was a great time.........we had to do such things as do the twist in the restaurant called the Jukebox, sing happy birthday to someone in Beef o Brady's, imitate the Frish's Big Boy statue, do a Mexican hat dance in Los Indios, get a picture on the caboose at a little shop in Greenville, find certain headstones in the cemetery, play a video game at an ice cream shop, get some pickles from Subway, get parmesan cheese from Bearnos, say the Pledge of Allegiance at JayC store's fruit section, play checkers and get a picture of our team sitting in rockers at Cracker Barrell, and all kinds of other silly, funny, crazy stuff. Some people might say...how is that fun........but personally, I think it is a blast........especially doing it with some fun teenagers. My group might not have won the race, but in my book they were the best! (Love you guys....and gal!!!) They were all on the ball and did everything exactly as they were supposed to. You see, if you did not follow the directions EXACTLY right, you did not get points for it, so you really had to do things right.

So, this was a fun night, and after the hunt, we all just hung out at the ranch for a while eating, and talking and having a good time. I have included some pictures so that you can enjoy seeing some of the things that we did.































......AND A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL.....