The Great Urban Race San Francisco

Today Aunt Ginger, Janet and Danielle and I ran The Great Urban Race in San Francisco. The race is similar to the Amazing Race TV show but all in one day in one city. You start off the race with a list of 12 clues, and your allowed to skip one. There's many different types of clues some were puzzles, riddles and instructions. You are allowed to use any technology and have phone a friends, I brought my laptop which helped a lot being able to Goggle some of the clues. At the start we decided to sit down and figure out the clues to map out our routes through the city. You are only allowed to travel by foot or public mass transit. It took us about 45 minutes to solve all the clues then we headed out. We went all over the city It started in the Presidio by the Golden gate bridge . First clue brought us to the Asqew resturant and had to eat some corn, then we needed to find a member of the Team hope foundation and donate $5. After the first two we took a bus to China town and had to go to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory and get a fortune. Then then we took pic of a statue in a Chinese garden. We then ran down to the Transamerica building, and had to take a pic holding the number of fingers up from a riddle. We were then off to the Pier 1 Market place to take a picture of a Ghandi statue. The race then brought us to 6th and Howard to tag the side of a art studio and pick up a flyer. Across the street was the clue and had to take a pic with this building that had all kinds of crazy things built into it our shot need to have a bathtub in it. We were than back on the bus to do our last clue a mini boot camp in a gym at the Presideo, it took about five minutes we did push ups, jump rope and through a medican ball, then it was a 5 minute run back to the finish. We didn't win but we finished in the middle of the pack and stayed with Aunt Ginger and Janet for the whole race. We won't no the exact results for a few days.

Thanks to Janet for running which is not in the vocabulry, she ran a few miles.There were 450 teams of 2 and they said it was one of the biggest Great Urban Races ever. I really had a good time and I can't wait for the race next year.