New York Scavenger Hunt

Saturday that just passed, I didn't do anything with the girls during the day, just a night at the river.

Sunday that just passsed, was the big aupair New York scavenger hunt. It was suppose to be 700 aupairs from new york, new jersey and conneticut but to me it looked like maybe a bit more then 300 turned up. Team aussie was me, Sarah, Steph & our honourary Frannie who had done the hunt last year. She told us about 5 or so things that she remembered from last year which were like subway cars, empty starbucks cards or bags - things that were pretty easy to get anyway. The other aussie team was Alice & Alissa who had done it last year plus Emily & Danyale. As well as the things they remembered from last year, they also found the list of scavenger items online the day before the hunt and so had bought most of the items from home. A few aussie friends didn't want to do the hunt so they stayed home for the day. I noticed a lot of aupairs came and signed in, then left without doing the hunt - how boring!

We started on the steps of the library and got handed the list at 10.30 and the race began! We had a list of questions to answer about ourselves, about new york and then a list of things to find around the city. It ranged from mundane things like napkins, fortune cookies, straws, chopsticks to more new york things like pretzels, something yankees, something empire state, times sq movie stub etc. I was really proud of myself because I answered about 75% of the new york questions by myself then we googled the rest and asked my host mom about 4.
It was so much fun running around midtown like crazy people trying to get impossible things like hotel recipets, broadway ticket stubs and airplane boarding passes (come on!) and we had so much fun being inventive like putting items together 'pencil' and 'something with big apple on it'....and then even more creative when it said things such as two dollar bill, and as its very hard to find an american one, we used a singapore one instead!!

The race finished at 1230 at Washington Square Park and we waited for about an hour to have the winners announced. Alice and ALissa's team won with 130 points. They got $25 off silverbay each and $25 prepaid visa card each. My team came second!!! With 106 points and got $15 giftcards. We were so so proud of ourselves and most of all had an absolute blast! We got such a high score, especially for our first time!

After we finished we were all tired and exhausted and headed to Whole foods (awesome organic supermarket with a lot of premade salads, hot meals, sandwiches, etc) for a delicious lunch before train home to make it in time for Frannie's host mom's BBQ for Fran's going away. We met her host parents and kids for the first time, and had a great time all the aussies together (me, sarah, steph, frannie, alice, alissa, jade, emily, emma) taking photos and telling stories about how we first met Frannie. It was really sad, but it will be worse this SUnday because that is when we are throwing her going away just from us aussie girls without her host parents, and then she leaves MOnday morning. After the BBQ, the four of us (sarah, steph, fran, me) headed to our fav hangout, the river, and were in the most active, giggly, crazy mood - we took lots of photos and had lots of laughs.

This was definitly one of the top ten days this year.