MY TEAM WON THE POST HUNT!* Mr. TA and I only decided to participate in this scavenger hunt/brainteaser game last night. I thought I would be useless because I'm crappy at crosswords. But the stars aligned, (and one of our team members had done a similar puzzle race in Miami 6 or 7 times), and we came in first! I even contributed on several of the legs (by knowing that you can send a text message to a 5-digit number, and noticing that R2D2 and C3PO are map coordinates.)
This is now my third major life victory, following the Care Bears coloring contest in 2nd grade (prize: a large Pizza Hut pizza), and the quasi-militaristic drill competition at dance team camp (prize: a ribbon, and Tiger Paws glory). The award here was definitely better ($2000 split six ways!), and it was also probably the only time I will be photographed with one of those huge checks. Yayyyy!! I now officially forgive the Washington Post for the miscarriage of justice that was the Peeps Diorama contest.
*This news is much too awesome to worry about destroying what remains of my moth-eaten fake anonymity.
1 comment:
Congratulations TA! And you guys did it without dorky team t-shirts.
What great fun. My team improved our record from last year, but still only 4/5. I think we definitely need more adults on our team. It's Mr. Ellie, me, a kid old enough to be useful, and another one, not so much. Oh, well, onto next year!
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