The Scavenger Hunt

Tonight instead of having a normal youth group service, we had our "7th Annual Video Scavenger Hunt." We split up into 9 teams and had to go around town and do crazy stuff for points! Each team had to video tape each thing they did to prove that it was done. Pastor Corey gave us a list of different things we could do. Each thing was worth a certain number of points, and obviously, the team with the most points at the end won. And the thing is...we only had 45 minutes before our team had to be back at the church...which really, wasn't a lot of time. So anyway, i was on the smallest team. There were 3 girls including me and another leader that was driving and doing the video taping.
I will list the things we did to get points...and I will then tell you some of the other crazy things teams did to get points! We started off by going to Perkins and video taping a group of three eating. We asked 3 elderly ladies if we could tape them eating and they were all for it! They were so nice. They were offering us food and laughing....we were very happy that they were so into it! Then one of the ladies said on the tape "This team's going to win!!" Anyway, after that another task that we could do was ask the manager to make us a free piece of toast. He and all the other employees were so helpful! He kindly made us a piece of toast. Then, we had 3 of the employees play leap frog!! It was hilarious. At first they were hesitant but after a couple minutes of begging, they decided they would......IF we did it first. haha. So after we showed them how it was done, we got them on tape, said our thank yous, and quickly ventured out to do our next task. Another thing on the list was to tape someone in a blue car..and Sarah, the leader who was driving our team happened to have a blue car!! So we asked a complete stranger if he would sit in the driver's seat so we could tape him. Once again, he was kind enough to do it. We then headed to "HyVee"...which is a grocery store here (for those of you who don't know) and we had to do a cheer infront of the store. We then asked one of the employees if we could race him...since that was another thing on the list. Another thing on the list was to try to get into a movie ...but, the manager of the movie theater said it was illegal, so they gave us free popcorn instead...which was nice! Then, we stepped up to the big points! One thing we could do for 300 points was to go to the news station here and do a "fake" broadcasting! Luckily, Sarah used to work there and she had connections! It was soooooooooo coool! We actually got to sit in the chairs behind the news desk and the lady was nice enough to set up the TV that shows the broadcasters what to say. We read todays weather forecast..'twas fun! We obviously weren't on the real news, but, we did get it on tape and no other groups did that task! WOOHOO. Oh yeah, how could I forget. Another thing we did was everyone from your team had to dunk their head (down to their chin) into water. We happened to be close to Holiday Inn, so we asked the lady at the front desk if we could quickly dunk our heads in the pool. She didn't care, so we did. Corey said our group dunked our heads in the farthest. He was very impressed. That basically took up all the time we had. In between each thing we asked people questions like "Do you know Chris Gogeleski?" (he's a youth leader at our church) and "Have you eaten SPAM today?" haha... Needless to say it was super fun and it was a great way to get newcomers involved! We then went back to the church (we were a minute late, so we got 40 points deducted....bummer) to have a pizza party and to watch the videos. On the way back to the church we were stuck behind a really slow van so we were riding their tail the whole time......and....when they turned the corner, the driver kind of gave us the finger!! Wups. Good thing we didn't get that on tape. Our team ended up getting 5th place out of nine teams. People did crazy stuff for points! Some teams had people shave their eyebrows for 300 points, and went in dumpsters....and other crazy stuff. And the people who did shave their eyebrows (eyebrow I should say) didn't even get first place! So now, they have to live in embarassment until ....hopefully something grows back! haha. Anyway, I don't know why they did because the winning team got a trophy with a person doing a hand stand on a pig......hahahaha I guess it's an inside joke with this youth group. Well that's all I have to say....I hope everyone made it this far...i know it's a long one!

I love you all!!! 16 days!!!