Monday, August 23, 2010

Buffalo Scavenger Hunt


Last year we heard about this amazing event called the Buffalo Scavenger Hunt.  It's just what it sounds like, a scavenger hunt, but for adults.  Our friends Gavin and Joe have won the hunt the past two years in a row.  They made it look like so much fun so we decided to give it a go.  The teams are made up of four people, so besides me and James, we had Danielle and her boyfriend Jeff on our team.  It was on a Saturday from 12-5pm.  You think that 5 hours would be plenty of time, but when 4:30 was rolling around we were scrambling.  It was definitely not enough time.  At noon we were handed a list with about 200 items on there.  The items were listed in different groups:  Entire team pictures, one team member pictures, stranger pictures, items, trivia questions.  The pictures were pretty straight forward but the items and trivia questions were a bit more difficult.  Some of our "items" included a receipt for $.23, an ATM receipt with a bank balance of $20.10, a butter buffalo, a potato with BSH carved into it, a necklace made of "stuff" along the way, a turnip, a bouquet of weeds, etc...  I wish I would have kept the list, these items were hysterical. 

A orange cone hat


Doing a shot of Tabasco

Holding a bottle of Blue Light Lime

Fist pounding a mailman

A picture with 10 plus strangers

Selling a team member at a yard sale

A human sundae

Decorating a cake

A stranger praying at Gabriel's Gate

Doing the dishes at a restaurant

Smelling each others armpits in front of a dumpster

Giving each other piggy faces at Fat Bob's

It's 5 o'clock somewhere!

Eating a twinkie in one bite

Pantyhose bandit

Tissue box shoes (inspired by Kevin from The Office)

Giving a team member a swirlie

Switching clothes with another team...  Before

After

Drinking with our feet (with the help of straws)

Giving blowfish faces from inside Cafe 59

Impersonating people in a painting

Skipping on a red brick road (or sidewalk)

Sitting on a curbside couch

Picture with a limo driver

Picture with an entire wedding party

A team member under the waterfall at Rotary Rink

A stranger saying "That's hot!"

Eating the pickle at Coffee Culture

A team member stuck in the Auspberger Ramp

A papaya in front of Papaya

A stranger eating chocolate in front of Chocolate Bar

Kung Fu in front of Venue

Eating garlic

Wutang symbols in front of Club W

Flapping our arms in the Atrium Bar

A picture with Andy the Armadillo

Eating a gummy worm with chopsticks

Beatin' up the Beat Jersey Shore style!

Eating a meat ball in front of Prima Pizza


Thursday, August 19, 2010

Family Picnic with the Foulger side, minus a few favorites

Our last night in town, we had a family picnic with the Foulger side of the fam.  It's such fun to see all my favorites and I always have a blast with them!  In James's words, "your aunts are crazy broads and I love it!".  We enjoyed some lawn games, delicious salads and sides, a few rolls down the hill, a family picture and lots of laughs. 


Sara and my aunt Ruthann



Me and baby Jacob


June and James's bonding time


Some of the fam, probably only half...


Some of the little ones


That didn't go well...


Besties!


Sutty and baby Jacob

Park City

While in Utah we ventured up to Park City. Since Kristin had never been to Utah, I thought it was a must see.  We went the same weekend as the arts festival but it turned out to not be too busy and there was a shuttle to take us from PCMR to Main Street for lunch.   We started off with the zip line at PC.  James and Kristin thought it looked cool from the bottom of the mountain.  But then we boarded the ski lift and they both became scared, small children.  By the time we got to the top of the lift, both were crying that they wanted to go back down.   Pete and I shoved them into the zipline line and made sure they were in front of us so they didn't chicken out after we went down.  They spent most of the time in line whining that they had stomach aches and couldn't ride.   But we forced them onto it and in the end Kristin had fun.  James... not so much. 


By the time we were done with the zipline, the rest of the fam showed up and we headed up to the Alpine Slide.  My dad insisted on racing James (I knew my dad would win since James had just pooped his pants on the zipline), so I raced with Kristin.  My dad obviously won and Kristin beat me as well.  After that we rode the shuttle up to Main Street Pizza.  Jaime and Pete had some gift cards to burn so they treated us all to lunch.  Thanks guys! 

We headed back down the mountain to the outlets, obviously.  We did a little shopping and then went to grandma's so I could show off my cooking skillz.  I did a very good job and there were no hockey pucks to be thrown away.  But that might be because I was banned from the grill long ago. 


So tired from pooping all morning.






Calm before the zipline storm


Notice James's face and notice Kristin's face...


Not feeling so hot...


Really not feeling so hot


So much fun!


Not happy again..













We went so slow that we almost were hit by a man with a child.


Luci Mei enjoying some cake


They have recovered from the Hellfire Challenge