We’re all back in Café Bacio to start our 3rd
day of the race. All the teams arrive
early – chomping at the bit! We’re 2nd
to leave and rip into our clue while we run out of the café so no other team
can figure out where we are going.
It’s
Quasar, the disco – only down 1 floor. Yes, no elevators! We run down there and are first to arrive at
the challenge. It’s a matching game –
but unfortunately it is matching famous quotes to the people who said
them. Ack! 10 quotes. Ok. But they give us 15
names. Yeah, couldn’t make it that easy
could they? So we start placing names,
then ask the marshal to review. We had 3
right. Great – which three? Who knows! So we shuffle things around. Two right. Argh. One more time – now we have
five right. Ok – so now we’re into it – we make the marshal stay right there
and tell us right or wrong on each quote – yeah- probably not kosher – but come
on! We’d never do it otherwise and we’re getting the hang of the “help” we can
get! We complete the challenge pretty quickly that way – and we’re off – to the
casino. Cool. That’s right around the
corner from Quasar.
Here we get caught up behind 2 teams who are taking a
long time to do the challenge. So we’re just cooling our heels. But – we get
the clue while we wait and it turns out we need to read 6 clues that contain
years in Roman Numerals as part of the clue. Once we have converted the years
into conventional numbers, we have to find a coin with that year on it. Really? What?
Jeez. We don’t need to stay in
the Casino – but where the heck else are we going to go? Since we’re just waiting – we go to the
cashier and grab a dollar worth of pennies and a dollar worth of nickels. We start to sort through the coins and put
them into numerical year order. Think
that was probably cheating – but nobody stopped us! Finally we get the cards –
and the clues aren’t that bad – we get 5 out of 6 numbers pretty quickly. Now we have to find the coins. We actually do
pretty well with the pennies – although I had to go back for more and we got
almost all new ones which weren’t helpful.
We were spread all over a black jack table, which was getting ready to
open, so we got thrown out of there.
Ended up at the bar and I found a nickel that was impossible to read –
so Ed said “use it!”. Ok! I ran back to the marshal with the clue and
she took it. Cool! Done! Next route clue – it’s the gym. Argh!
At least we’re at the forward elevators – but now we have
to go up 10 decks. We’re still running of course (stupidly – but we’re still in
the real TV Race mode!). At the gym we
get a roadblock. Two choices – either
choose 2 team members who walk/run 1 mile on the treadmills or go to 8
different locations on the ship, get 8 different people to let you put on their
shoes and take pictures as proof. Ick –
and how long will it take to get to the 8 different locations? We choose the treadmills, because, what the heck
– I can run a mile pretty quickly. Randy
chooses to do this with me and off we go – fastest I’ve run ever – 9:22 – I was
going at a 6.2 average the whole time.
Phew – I don’t need to come back this afternoon! Randy, who hasn’t been in a gym or doing his
exercises in a year now, made it in 9:38.
Impressive! We were stoked! (Of course in hind sight and when we talked
to the other teams, we realized that we should have asked more questions about
the shoe thing – we assumed we would be sent to specific places around the ship
– but that wasn’t the case – we could just go where ever we wanted – so we
could have done the darn shoe thing in no time.
Crud. Strategic mistake! Those 19
minutes might kill us.)
The Pit stop is up next – it’s Cellar Masters – back down
on 4 and mid ship. Back to the
elevators. Sigh. This time it matters when we get to the pit
stop because it gives us a lead to start the next day’s race. Ed and Ron figure out how to commandeer the
elevators by standing side by side right up front at the doors then if we stop
on a floor just saying “full” and hitting the close button. That worked pretty well actually! We end up being 4th into the Pit
stop – dang – but we’re 2nd overall for the day. Once everything is tallied we are in 3rd
place behind Green and Red. But they are way ahead – so this could be bad for
us. Both of them have used their Fast
Forward, and we are still clinging to ours.
We will have to be very strategic in using that advantage going forward.
We also have our Bonus Karaoke challenge. The first Karaoke is tonight in Quasar, so we
all agree to meet there early to get our songs in first. We’ve been trying to choose songs for the last
couple of days and haven’t really landed on anything. Among the many we have bandied about, Bev has
suggested Summer Nights and YMCA. They
are as good as any – and the minute we get the books and the cards handed out
to us, we turn those 2 songs in. All the
teams arrive, so tonight will be ARE Karaoke night. It’s a blast – but as all of you know after
years of us sitting at the bar at Friscos, and then Longboards or whatever the
iteration of the bar/restaurant at MP 4.5 in Kitty Hawk, and never gracing the
stage there – WE DON’T DO KARAOKE – so even though it was totally fun – we must
destroy the video that Prim took as the proof that we actually completed the
challenge! LOL. It was a blast – and everyone really got into
it. We danced and sang and generally
filled the disco with more people than Lenny the DJ had seen the entire
cruise! But, in terms of the game, it
was a wash – everyone was awarded the 45 minute time bonus, so it was all for
fun – and not competition!
No comments:
Post a Comment