Scavenger Hunt

Yesterday we had one of my favorite youth events- the Digital Camera Scavenger Hunt. This event is fun because it's very low-key, inexpensive, and doesn't require traveling! We start out by meeting at Shakespeare's Pizza for lunch, then we split up the kids and give them two hours, a digital camera, and a list of 50 things to take a picture of downtown. Some of them are just things or places downtown (a dogwood, an alligator, an indian, a bowling alley), some of them are actions (doing the chicken dance, the electric slide, blowing a bubble), and some require great skill and creativity (your group with a squirrel, a person with the same shirt, a person in uniform). Anyway, it always results in embarrassing, hilarious stories AND, since they have to take pictures of everything, it's all captured for public viewing! It's funny because youth kids are usually too cool to do something like the sprinkler on the Quad on campus. But, because it's a competition, they can't resist! So, because I want everyone to get the enjoyment I got... here are pictures from the two groups who had my cameras!

the aformentioned sprinkler...

a touchdown dance on Stankowski Field... the weakest touchdown dances ever, since all they did was spike the ball, throw their hands in the air and say "Woohoo"

A cowboy not in your group... this group actually stopped this guy driving down the road and asked if he'd get out and take a picture!

Moonwalking across a crosswalk

Pretend fishing in a fountain

Doing the Chicken Dance

Rolling down a hill

Enjoying some much needed ice cream after it was all over! :)

You'll notice I'm not in the pictures... I love being a leader! :)