Amazing Racers

I learned a lesson today...

I learned that it takes about 20 times more effort to plan an Amazing Race Birthday Party than it takes the racers to finish!

First of all, the race had to be indoors because of the monsoon we were having. 

We had fun walking home from the last day of school.

Thank goodness for good sports and great help !

We got right to it.

Explained the rules, handed out team bandannas, and started running around the house.

We had detours, roadblocks, and challenges.

I even had an extra challenge for the older kids, thinking it would slow them down some.

What a fun crew! 

The only problem is that they finished in under a half hour!

Now what?

My wonderful neighbor Dyana was Simon for awhile...

then she made a scavenger hunt for them and we sent the teams out in the rain.

They had to find different leaves, lilac, "banana seeds", etc.

Somewhere in there we had cake and ice cream

It was a blur...kind of like my photos...a bit blurry from running around trying to keep up!

It was wild, 

crazy,

fast,

fun,

and it's over!

I think its time to retire from the big birthday parties!