What Up?

We went on a scavenger hunt with fellow members of the Desert Rat Pack (the Phoenix chapter of the Dynamic Mini Collective) yesterday. It was really fun. We met in the corner of a parking lot in downtown Phoenix at 10 am, left to start collecting our loot at 10:30, and met up at a nearby restaurant at 12:30 to have some lunch and count up the points.

Points were collected for bring back things from a list (400 points) as well as for catching digital photos of things from another list (300 points). CoopahS headed over to Dan's nearby office to pick up some office supplies, stopping at a 7 Eleven for Peanut M&Ms, an apartment guide, and a receipt between $1 and $1.37. We didn't know that there are only 2 of each color in a packet of M&Ms so we lucked out in getting 3 in one package, but only had 1 in the other. :( We don't eat Peanut M&Ms. While Dan was up in the office looking for things, I sat in the car and studied the list, thinking about where we could find things.

I think that people went shopping too much. I feel that the spirit of the game is to use your resourcefulness and find the things, not to just go spend money on them. Scott bought a six pack of cold Moosehead to get the bottle cap. Others bought packages of thumbtacks, Mini Sharpies, and pencils. We asked a couple of people to pose for us but other than that, the only thing we did was to pose for a couple of photos ourselves. The rules didn't say we couldn't. We spent about equal energy on the two lists. Click here for a little video of our photos.