Amazing Race Fun

We planned another Amazing Race this year. We planned one for Troy and Jen and their friends. Thanks to all of our friends who helped with the planning and executing. We had our race and these are all of our fun friends who played with us. Our two partners were not able to come at the last minute and so we recruited my nephew Ronnie to come and play with us. We started at basketball court in Daybreak and went down the street to the Daybreak Elementary playground where we had to solve a brain teaser. Thanks to Kenny and Ronnie we made it through that one. Then we went to Daybreak lake and had to row a canoe around to different docks to get our color of popsicle stick, but we had to get them in the right order. From there we drove to the outdoor swimming pool by the Olympic ice skating oval. We could choose to jump off one of the olympic diving towers. If you chose one of the lower ones then you had a time penalty. I did it once when I was a kid, but I am afraid of heights. I thought about all of the times sitting on the couch watching the show and thinking, just do it. So I jumped off of the highest. I think almost everyone that jumped came up hurting one way or another. It was a great task. Then we drove to the South Jordan equestrian park where we had to rope something and then ride a horse through a timed course. Ronnie whipped through it. We were glad we had him. Then we went to the river bottoms where Ronnie and Kenny rode bikes down the Jordan River Parkway trail. I met them at the other end where I had to find two garden gnomes and then figure out a math problem to get the address of our next task. We ended up at Jen and Troy's house where we had to play rock band good enough to get our next clue. The final stop was out at Utah Lake where we could go on a banana behind a boat or take the wave runners to find something. It was a lot of fun and they put in so much work. We met back at my house after for a BBQ and to talk about all of the fun. It was a great day. Oh yeah, did I mention that we didn't win again. Nice job red team. Thanks Jen, Troy and all those who put so much effort to make it such a fun race.