Amazing race!

Mateja prepared Amazing race for Več (our youth group) yesterday and it was FUN, FUN, FUN!! :)
There were 3 teams, I was with Meagan, Kaja and Klavdija. Great girls, super great team :)

We started the race in the center of Ljubljana,
on Prešeren square (at 2pm) and we got a puzzle to put together. On the photo was a tower of Ljubljana castle so we knew we have to go there. It was near BUT it was SO hot (we literally ran up the hill for 5min).
We looked for the 1st station for 20min and when we found it, we were the last ones. We did the task (we had to turn a grocery bag around while standing on it) and ran to our 2nd station where we got some water (yay!). The task wasn't as easy as the first one; we had at least 10 keys in front of us and we had to put the right one to unlock the lock. It took us forever but at last we did it and we ran to Stari trg to our 3rd station where we had to find a stranger to act a scene from a certain movie with us. We picked out Titanic and we got a man that helped us be Leonardo Di Caprio :) So, he was holding Kaja while Meagan, Klavdija and me were the waves :) it was so much fun :)
We were SO fast at that task we weren't a lot behind anymore so we ran to Plaža (coast) which is a place near Ljubljanica (river). We saw the second team 200m in front of us and we decided to trick them and get to the 4th station faster. They were WALKING by the water while we RAN :) up on the road and we were really careful so they wouldn't see us and start running but at the end, we got there faster! :)
Our 4th task was to fill up half of the bucket BUT the catch was that we had to have a bucket on one side of Ljubljanica and we had to run on the other side of Ljubljanica and get the water. So.. again, a lot of running on the hot sun at 3.30pm :)
It was a lot of fun but the team that we got ahead of was faster and again, we were the last ones. We didn't really care and after filling the half of the bucket, we ran to the 5th station where we got 3 litres of lemonade and 50 plastic cups. Our task was to give this to people we don't know and come back when we're done. We were the last ones so the first 2 teams gave a lot of lemonade to people on Plaža already so we decided to go and find people on the playground and by the store, just 50m away. We found a postman on a bike and he helped us so much! He drank 1 liter of lemonade (6 or 7 cups)! We were so lucky to find him :) we gave the lemonade to some other people and when we got back to the 6th station, Mateja and Metka said we were the first ones! Our next station (7th) was in Tivoli so we walked for at least 20min to get there (Klavdija didn't feel well so she went home during our walk to Tivoli.. bummer :/ )
We got there first (so funny to be the last one for so long and then be the first one just because of one post man :) ) and we had to do some pantomime but only with our face. We didn't get it right (I had no idea :) ) and we had to do another task - gallows (never heard of this word in english before). We did it and found out Katka and David are pregnant! :) (I hope it's ok for me to write this on my blog now that everyone knows, right?)
The other 2 teams got to Tivoli as well so we didn't have a lot of time to hug Katka and David so we ran to the playground to our 8th station where we had to lift a stick up and down (a really thin stick) and all of our fingers had to touch the stick. We did it after a while :) and the second team wasn't around yet but we still ran through Tivoli and found our 9th station where we had to touch 30 plates with numbers on it in 30 seconds. The numbers were mixed and only one person could touch the plate at one time. We did it in our first take and then we had to go to our 10th station which was in Štepanjsko naselje. If we would take a bus, it would take us around 30min or more so.. we knew we can't use our cell phones but we could ask someone else to call from their cell phone for us. And that's exactly what we did :)
We found 2 girls and explained everything to them and they called Terry, Meagan's dad to come and pick us up. While we were waiting for him, we saw the second team run to the bus station and we knew we were gonna be faster :)
We came to our 10th station which was Hondo and Trish's house and got some water and cookies and our next task. Each of us got 2 pictures of one story and we had to describe what's one the pics but we weren't allowed to show them to each other. Meagan was so great in this one, she figured out the story so fast :)
Our 11th station, the last station, was at Rudnik, at David and Katka's place. We took a bus and saw 2 other teams running to Trish's house so we knew we were probably gonna be the winners :)
It took us a while to get to Rudnik and we came first so we won (YAY! :) BUT the second team came 5min after us and the third team came 5min after them! Intense! :)
We ate dinner that Katka and girls made and just talked about our day and the amazing race.
Our team was so competitive and great. Each of us had something that would be missing if she wouldn't be in our team. Meagan was the one that was thinking fast and logicly and Kaja had some greeeeat ideas (she gave the idea of running ahead of the second team on Plaža) and I was the one that was stimulating the team (a bit too much sometimes so Meagan had to stop me :) ) and Klavdija was great at team work. It wasn't like anyone would be frustrated or angry or mad.. it was really intense sometimes but still exciting, fun!

Our team at the 2nd station

I'm SO grateful that Mateja did this for us. We had a great time, I probably lost some weigth :) and we got to know each other better. Everyone was in a team with someone he didn't know well yet and has a different task at English camp and that's so great cuz now we can hang out with anyone even if we don't do the same things at camp.

Anyway.. I hope we repeat this sometimes. Maybe sometimes when it's not this hot ;)