Amazing Race

The summer started out with the 2nd Annual Amazing Race Salt Lake City (we will see if there will be another). I think it turned out real fun. I only made a few mistakes but everyone was pretty good to understand. They had a lot of tasks to complete and the only one that I have on camera is Airborne where they had to jump for 10 minutes and then do a jump into the foam pit.

Some of the other tasks that were...

Wall Climbing at Momentum climbing

Singing "I am a little Tea Pot" at South Towne Mall

Eating cupcakes until you find the prize in side

Golfing at Mulligan's

Riding a scooter at Classic Rollerskating

and a lot, lot more!

Got Jipped (They kind of got "Jipped" last year)

The winning team-Soda-licious

That's what she said

Fanatics

ROK-Richards, Ormes, Kunz

The fight against abnormal, atypical, moles foundation...I think :)

The Walkie Talkies

We're on a mission

Can I get a Hot tub?

Norris

and again, We're on a mission...I am too lazy to delete the photo

The Avengers

The Wadalyers

The Creators

It was a lot of fun and a lot of work and well worth it!

The next adventure was the Ragnar Relay-Wasatch Back. This is always such a blast! We are lucky to have a fabulous team and a fabulous van. We don't do the race for the running, we do it for the company and the good laughs. This year was no exception.

Justin, Lou Lou, Nat, Collin, Keysha and Chad

Team- Powered by Gas or Bad ASSphalt...not quite sure which one we were??

Getting ready for night time runs. My night time run was ridiculous! They had us run on a railroad trail in the middle of the night with nothing but your headlamp. I was dodging rocks, holes and cow pies the whole time! I hated it!

The Ladies

Van 1 has finished, time for Van 2 to finish up...yuck!

The Men

Collin is trying to grab my chest...

All done! This was our 3rd year doing and sad to say that we are not doing it next year, I guess taking a break for a while. I am actually kind of bummed about it, right now it is kind of nice to think that I don't have to prepare for it, but when the time comes, I think it will be sad.

Bye, bye Ragnar!

The Amazing Race SLC

At the beginning of June, I organized an Amazing Race activity. I called it the Amazing Race SLC, it was pretty fun. We had about 50 something people participate and they were all great sports!

After I received all of the RSVP's I put everyone on a team. They were then responsible to get me a team name by a certain date. Everyone did a great job with the team names! They received extra points if they had the team name and money into me by a certain date. They also received extra points if they dressed up in some way.

Here are the teams with the team names and the costumes:

THE A TEAM (They look awesome, right?)

DENALI DEVILS AND DARLINS ( Aren't they cute?)

5 SANDY SUCKERS AND A SPUD

GREEN DAGGERS

HARD BALLS

MEXICAN MAFIA

ROAD KILL

FIRE CRACKAZ!

THE FAST AND THE DELIRIOUS

ENCANTADO

THE PI'S (PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS, sorry the pic is a little dark, you can't see the faces too well) This team probably had the worst luck of the race...ticket...cab...need I say more?

All teams had to be at the starting place by 4:00 or they would have points deducted from their score. I wanted to start on time and we did start on time, everyone was there! Wow!

I went over the rules and answered questions before we started. When it was time to go, this is what it looked like:

Herds of people running to cars and cars taking off!

Collin and I were planning on being able to follow everyone during the race and just see what was going on. Didn't happen, everyone was quick to each stop that we were only able to make it to two stops.

The third stop was a "Road Block" the team had to choose one team member to swim 4 laps, dive off the diving board and go down a water slide. It was awesome to watch.

Here are a few pics (I decided not to post any of them actually swimming, I didn't want to be in trouble by anyone:)

Who's this guy?

Heidi is excited! I love it!

This girl (Jaci) was the only girl that swam, she jumped out of the car, ran to the pool, jumped in (in her clothes) and was done in a second (a little longer). She was awesome!

All done!

Cute Mexian Mafia chicks!

Go Green Daggers!

Cute Elisha!

Go Nicky!

John and Celest! So fun!

Sudweeks

Collin and Chad

Cute Haws and Sexy Lexee!

Beautiful Trisha!

The cute Darlin's!

One of the stops was to go where High School Musical was filmed take a picture, and fill in the blanks of a map. We were only able to catch a few teams there.

The Hard Balls

Road Kill

5 Sandy Suckers and a Spud

Overall I think the race turned out pretty good. I had a few mix-ups but everyone dealt with them okay. It was kind of a bummer that we couldn't find ice for the ice blocking and that I had so many activities that most teams were not able to accomplish everything. I just hope that everyone had a great time and had some awesome memories!

The PI's getting their award. The rest of the team had to leave...go Chad and Keysha!

Everyone enjoying dinner

The winner ended up being Road Kill. It was a toss up between them and 5 Sandy Suckers and a Spud. The 5 Sandy Suckers were first, but because of me, they didn't accomplish all of the tasks, so I gave it to the other team because they did everything! And it was pretty hard to get everything done in the time alloted (I planned too much. oops!)

Go Road Kill! And thanks Sandy Suckers for being such good sports!

Thanks everyone for participating,

you were AMAZING!

Love, Collin & Nat