Urban Dare Sacramento!

Since my last update Zak and I joined a race in Downtown Sacramento CA called the "Urban Dare". It consists of running, walking, trivia about the city, dares (such as sticking your face in a plate of whipped cream to find bubble gum... then blowing a bubble) and it was an all out race with about 35 other teams! Through out the race you are allowed to use smart phones, call friends or family that have access to the Internet, and take public buses and subways(we opted out of the public transportation). As the race started we were handed our clue sheets with 11 clues and dares that we needed to complete with photos before we headed back to the start/finish. Luckily Zak and I had the smarts to print off maps of the city since we had no idea what roads lead where! Also, the clues are in no particular order so you have to figure out the answer, find what it is connected with in Sacramento, find out where that place is...and RUN! Here I am before Zak and I began our race: (CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE)

Our first clue: "It is the title role of an Adam Sandler film in which Kathy Bates plays his mother. Get your picture in front of the restaurant that goes by this name." Answer: Water Boy! This one was a couple blocks away from our starting point.

After leaving Water Boy Cafe we ran into a woman who was willing to fulfill part of our "photo hunt" challenge which was "Get a picture of someone not in the race doing a cartwheel."

Clue number 3: "His statue of David now stands in the Galleria dell'Academia in Florence. Get your picture in front of the restaurant that goes by this name." Answer: Michaelangelo! This one took a bit to find since we weren't familiar with the structure of the streets yet.

Clue number 4: "This establishment that specializes in a green form of transportation, has a rhyming name. Get your picture in front of it." Answer: Mike's Bike's! We actually passed this on the way to Michaelangelo's and didn't know it!

Clue number 5: "This sea god's statue was once covered, so as not to offend a convention of home schoolers. Never mind those that were offended that the sculpture had to be covered up. Get your picture with this statue." Answer: Poseidon! I give Zak props for finding this one! It was in the middle of a bunch of buildings and had no physical address. But luckily his friend from work took explained this statue to him just days before while they were downtown, so he remembered where it was!

Clue number 6: "Go to the monument that honors California's firefighters for your spellbound dare." We ran around the capitol park a few times before finding the firefighter's memorial, but when we did find it and completed our dare which was to add up the numbers found across the memorial that corresponded with a word our team had. Once we had the final number correct we could move on..

After the dare at the memorial, we ran into an opportunity to complete our photo hunt dare! "Get your picture shaking hands with a dog." Thank you puppy for being such a good sport! :)

On to the next clue! # 7: "This ship was known as the galloping ghost of the china coast. Get your picture with it." Answer: USS Sacramento! It took forever to find this one and we had to call reinforcements aka my sister, her boyfriend, and my mother! Thankfully we found it... I was actually looking for a ship which would have been much easier to find.. instead it was an anchor!

Clue number 8: "In China, he is known as the father of the nation. Find his statue and get your picture with him." Answer: Sun Yat Sen Statue! Off to China Town we went! 

After China Town we had a dare to do a wheelbarrow race on the other side of town.. we didn't get a photo of this one though!

The next clue # 10: He said, "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself..." Dont be scared. Go to his park for your bubble dare." Answer: Roosevelt Park! I took this challenge and it was a messy one! I dont have a photo, but instead I have a video for you viewing pleasure... ENJOY!

The final clue! Number 10! "Go to the market named after the street that is named after the (CDXXXII DIVIDED BY XXIV)th letter of the alphabet. Get your picture with the equine statue there. Thanks for the help with the roman numerals mom! After figuring out what they represented we added them up "18" and found the 18th letter of the alphabet...Q right? Wrong. FAIL. So we thought we had this in the bag.. running up and down Q street trying to find a market with a statue of a horse... wait... lets count again... ohhhh. Its R! We found the R Street Market... and the horse! 

As you can tell by that last photo... I was doooooooooooone. Ok so time to head back to the starting point AKA MVP Sports Grille...the only thing that kept me going was knowing there was a beer waiting for me...

So in the end we finished 25th out of 35 teams, it was about 7 miles in all that we traveled around the city and it took us 2 hours and 50 minutes. Not bad considering I didn't think we would be able to finish all the clues since we weren't familiar with the area!