A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Well, in our case it was actually only 2 minutes late which led to being $300 short..but whose counting?

Nate and I once again signed up to participate in Urban Dare (think Amazing Race for 1 Day), but this time we had high aspirations of winning. Correction--I had high aspirations of winning. Nate just kept reminding me that he just really wanted to have fun.

And fun we did have. Despite the pouring rain, we ran our little hearts out, photo-capturing clue by clue as we raced back toward the finish line.

Yes, we were all business. Take a look at photos from the first year we did this (click here). What do you notice? Oh yes..the cutesy fun pictures that we clearly had someone else take.

Not this year. Find the location, snap the picture. Don't hangup the phone, don't even smile, just get the photo so we can race to the next spot. You may be asking yourself, why were you on the phone in the first place? Enter our internet specialist team, who were feverishly solving clues while we ran around the city making our path and job as easy as possible (totally legit by the event rules by the way).

Who better that Katie and Ryan--friends that helped co-create "the Google Bank" and have better internet skillz (yes with a z) than anyone I know. I knew they were the right choice, when I get this photo sent to me an hour before the event:

So did we have fun? ABSOLUTELY.
Did we win? No.

In fact, we lost by TWO lousy minutes. Two. 1. 2.

And of course you play the what if game. What if we had answered the first trivia question right to get our clue sheet first? What if I could have kept up with Nate and ran faster? What if we wouldnt' have missed the sculpture in the sculpture garden, or ran right to the first statue in Target field?

Ahh...the pain. BUT, we did win entry into the National competition, so depending on where it is and when it is we may just make an appearance there. In the meantime there is another company that does a similar event in Minneapolis in September, and Nate and I are already plotting our strategy for that one.

Watch out people.