The Amazing Race!

Yesterday, Ukarumpa held its first ever “Amazing Race,” patterned after the popular TV series. This even was the brainchild of Toni, one of our neighbors. She put a tremendous amount of effort into making it happen, and we are very grateful – because it was an awful lot of fun!

Here is a photo of my team – “Café con Leche.” From left to right is me, Johanna, Krista and Katy. We were the Latina team… well, sort of. Johanna is Colombian and Katy is Costa Rican. Krista and I are just gringas, but they let us be on their team because we speak Spanish. So, if you haven’t guessed, Johanna and Katy were the “café” and Krista and I were the “leche”.

We were given clues and had to figure out where to go for each “pit stop”, where we would complete a challenge before earning our next clue.

We did a blindfolded obstacle course...

I ate a plate full of such delicacies as sago, a sago grub, squid, jellyfish, fungus and sardines…

Sorting through stacks of envelopes to find a card…

I got a makeover from a blindfolded Krista…

Our skinned knees from crawling up Cemetary Hill on our hands and knees…

We learned a dance to Eye of the Tiger…

Poor Katy had to find one of our clues in a tub of whipped cream…

And more – 12 challenges total. It took us nearly 4 hours to finish, and out of 20 teams we came in at #10. Not bad. Boy was I sore the next morning though…