The Hunt

The college kids from my church have an annual campus-wide scavenger hunt. I'd been hearing about it for weeks. It's a pretty big deal. 

Egg hunts being a favorite, I was 100% on board. 

This is what I thought it would be like: 

What it was actually like: 

I first realized this was no children's game when we got to the "Reaping".

Names were called out, alliances formed, friendships shattered forever...

Not really, but it was very Hunger Gamesy, but I thought it would be okay. These kinds of things are for show.

Wrong.

We got an "initial packet"

In the Hunger Games this would have been the equivalent of helpful things: water, rope, medicine.

This is what we got: 

Within the first 30 seconds my team was climbing a fence. 

This is the moment that I knew I shouldn't have worn jeans. Or taken a shower beforehand.

This is the moment when we met our first puzzle.

And one of my teammates solved it. In five seconds. 

After realizing I was going to be pretty useless the whole time...

It pretty much a dramatic downhill spiral from there. 

I shamelessly belittled myself to the position of "envelope opener" about half way through. 

We did make it to the end.

Which was probably the only time I showed any kind of enthusiasm or athletic ability. 

I'd like to applaud my team for not leaving me to die. 

Because I'm 99% sure we came in dead last. 

That may or may not be contributed to the fact that I did nothing. 

Moral of the story: AU Scavenger hunts = Not like egg hunts.

At all.