2nd Annual Amazing Race

This last weekend we participated in our friends' 2nd annual Amazing Race and it was so incredibly AWESOME! I must first say that my friend Caran and I should receive the award for looking the most ridiculous(okay, maybe Brian Byrge out did us with his orang mohawk), but what the heck, we weren't going to win, so we were out to just have fun! We were paired with our friends Scott and Caran Leeds and we had such a great time.

We started the race in Daybreak and had to complete a really challenging mind puzzling game. rom there we were sent to the lake at Daybreak where we had to canoe in pairs to different docks around the lake and find sticks at the dock with our team color and numbered 1-4. The catch was the first pair out had to bring back sticks 1 and 2 and the 2nd pair out had to bring back 3 and 4. I don't think I've been canoeing since I was 13 at Girls Camp, so it was great! From there we headed to a pool and we had to jump off a 30 foot platform high dive. Talk about YIKES! I so wish I would've had my camera for that one. There's a real fear of heights out there and it was amazing to see people TERRIFIED, but yet force themselves off the ledge. It was Awesome!

The next clue took us to ride horses through these poles in less than 30 seconds and 2 members of our team had to rope the steer. Who knew that my husband knew how to rope? He nailed the first two he tried! He's a natural! I was on the horse and he kind of had a mind of his own...or maybe I just didn't know how to ride him...either way, it sure was fun.


We had to ride bikes along the Jordan Parkway, find garden gnomes (btw, what's with gnomes and the Amazing Race? They were apart of our Amazing race at our family reunion too?:), we had to go to a house and play Rock band. 2 people had to play on medium and 2 people played on easy. Then we ended the day out at Utah Lake. We had to ride a water weenie and stay on for a total of 60 seconds or ride wave runners and find things out in the lake and bring them back. AMAZING!!!!
This was a truly amazing race with so much preparation put in by those who put it together for us. We had such a great time! I love having such fun friends and creating these lasting memories with them. We did come in last, but hey, there's always next year!


Aren't we a couple of hotties? lol