Hooray! It's only three sleeps away! This has got to be one of the great summer adventures that has been made for adults. I can't wait. I've just hopefully managed to figure out the template email to some of my friends/family asking for pledges to support the City Chase cause - Right to Play. If you want to check this out you can look up righttoplay.ca. We need to raise at least $50 and we'll get the first of our Chase Points before we even start - so help us out please! Click here if you can help. Hopefully this works.
Just as an overview - we will spend exactly 6 hours trying to navigate throughout a huge amount of Calgary using either public transit or our own two (four, I guess) feet. We start with a clue sheet which my kids will be helping us with via fax and cell phone as a lot of the clues require internet access (this is after all sponsored by Blackberry!). So I'll be running while talking on the phone to them as they help us from Crutwell to decipher various codes and puzzles and sites and so on. We then figure out the fastest way there (usually Juanita wants to follow other "chasers" as opposed to any more intellectual approach). Then if we succeed in finding the place we still have to do something. I draw the line at eating bugs, although that is not out of the question. Last year I listed all the things we did - the worst being climbing the entire Calgary Tower. Ouch. The best was kayaking, though - that was refreshing.
I am quite jazzed up and have been working out like a maniac since December partly just for this event. However, I am definitely past 40 so we'll see how I survive! Juanita is much more peppy in the morning than I am. She got me through the first few hours definitely. However, after I downed a Teen burger - while running up a hill! - around noon I started to feel like a real athlete and we did pretty darn great - finishing with 11 chase points in good time.
Anyway, I'll let you all know how it goes!
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