from Downtown to Disneyland and everywhere in between

As previously reported, yesterday morning was the re-match of the City Race Urban Adventure Hunt between the Downtown Dwellers (my team) and Team Angelenic (Rich & Stephen). This time the focus was on Little Tokyo and I spent the week brushing up on my notes as a few years ago I served as a mentor for new LT docents with The Los Angeles Conservancy. However going into the competition I didn't feel like we were going to come away victorious, we were down one teammate as Eric had a speaking engagement in the afternoon, so that already put us at a slight disadvantage. Or perhaps not. We were well stacked with technology on our side (CJ), a logical thinker (Phil), little old me and Eric available via phone for anything random that completely stumped us.

As the results were being read we noticed that the overall team totals were much higher on this race versus the one we did back in October. Were people more knowledgeable about the area? Was it easier overall questions? We had answered all except for one and only got 3 of the numerous items that were available for extra credit. We were convinced that Team Angelenic beat us as they had answered all questions AND got more extra credit items than us. Then the shocker amongst all shockers....4th place goes to.....Team Angelenic. Wh-what? Perplexed yet excited at the same time I was. Then the announcement of the final 2 teams, separated by one point between them...wh-what? We won?!?! Holy shite! Regardless of the re-match we had a blast, these races are so much fun and I highly recommend them to anyone wanting to have a good time and learn some neat things about your city in the process.

Afterwards we all had lunch over at The Curry House and then I was off to go change and get down to Anaheim. (girl)Chris was in town for a Disneyland weekend trip and (boy)Chris and I drove down to meet her for the evening.

We entered the park at 7pm and in 5 hours we went on 8 rides. Not bad. The recap: Pirates, Haunted, food, Jungle Cruise, Star Tours, Matterhorn, Mr. Toad, Buzz Lightyear and last but not least Peter Pan! To say that my legs hurt in a major way today would not be an exaggeration. But it was worth it.

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Comments

[julius]

When Holly and I went last month we rode the Buzz Lightyear ride too. In line we thought it was going to be a pretty small-child oriented ride. But it turned out shooting the shit out of everything was GREAT.

Final scores were something like
Me: 100,000 points
Holly: 120 points

I got a lot of mileage out of that.

[shannon]

yeah, halfway through the ride i was alerted to the score keeping mechanism...after that i blast the hell out of everything...since i was the big winner in Downtown that morning it was only fitting that i beat (boy)Chris by roughly 9000 points:

Me - 50000
Him - 41000