Las Vegas Scavenger Dash

Several months ago, I saw an advertisement for "The Scavenger Dash."

What is Scavenger Dash?
The Scavenger Dash is a wildly fun urban adventure.

Teams of two solve twelve clues, have a wild city adventure and complete fun challenges while discovering the city in a different way. An amazing race on a local level, where anyone can participate.

Object:

to have fun!
to have an exciting adventure.
to properly complete all the clues first.

So of course I began the hunt for my partner, and Michael was the lucky winner!

I found us some cute matching outfits for the big day. Upon seeing them, Michael kind of rolled his eyes a bit, but I swear he put that hat on his head and never even threatened to remove it even after it got a bit warm. Which means. . . he secretly liked it.


Besides needing a partner to run my adventure with, I also needed a "pit crew," someone at home, sitting at the computer, that can act like a "phone a friend" when I needed some internet help. Molly was my immediate choice, and she did an AMAZING job. . . we seriously would have failed miserably without our wonderful pit crew. So I am sending out a huge THANK YOU to my sweet sweet sister!!
Besides helping with all our internet needs, knowing me so well, Molly knew that I would want a picture of her part in our race. So she took her own snapshot, and even better, she took it in "comic book" style, to go with our team theme. How great is she?!


So here's how it worked. . .

At 12 o'clock pm, teams stood around waiting for the first clue. Upon solving that clue, you would be led to a person who carried an envelope of 12 more clues. The clues led to different places along the strip (and a few a bit off) that had to be solved and photo documented. A few of the clue locations had challenges that had to be completed as well. You only had to finish 11 of the 12 clues, then it was a race to get back. Some of the clues, were not even clues, just challenges. "Get a picture with a license plate from a state that starts with M." "Get a red playing chip from a casino." Other clues were written in code, or used random quotes that had to be googled and looked up. Challenges consisted of a blind folded little obstacle course and getting to 100,000 in ski ball. All pretty do- able. There was no particular order that anything had to be finished in, so it was strategy on which clues led us where and which order would be the quickest to go. Only means of transportation being city bus, monerail, or what we did the WHOLE time- FOOT.

It was a pretty fun adventure. I was EXHAUSTED at the end. Michael made a great teammate, but a rather mean one as well. We were constantly arguing and yelling at each other while running down the street. It was seriously like being one of the "dating couples" that you find on the real Amazing Race! (No worries. . . we are just friends- just felt that way).
At one point Michael told me that we had only a mile to go to get to our next clue.
"A WHOLE MILE?" I questioned.
"Yes Shawna, so you only have to run for like five minutes."
"But Michael-- I DON'T run a 5 minute mile!!!"

At another point, he was once again yelling at me for trying to walk a few minutes when I yelled
"Michael- you don't have any compassion!"
in which he responded . . .
"Shawna, you don't know how to run!"

Somehow, we were able to smile in all of our pictures. . . fancy that. I guess we were just happy to get another place checked off our list of places to be. All in all, we really did have fun. And Michael's push to run the whole time and not stop at 7-11 for slurpees earned us a 12th place overall! (55 teams were competing).

The mural that was in a specific scene of the movie "The Hangover"


The water fountain "Halo."


A picture with "Punch" at a local steakhouse.


kissing the silver pig


Holding the handle to a very unknown little taco shop


Upon finishing, we got some sweet shirts, and over lunch, Michael and I once again became friends. :)

It was a pretty good day.