Out And About
I think I’ve been over the hill 4 times in the last 7 days - first went and bought some furniture, then attended an Alumni event where I met Lawrence and whole bunch of people that I didn’t even know where in the area. There was the hockey game between San Jose Sharks and Chicago Blackhawks where Gary and I got the free tickets to, and lastly, bunch of us participated in the San Francisco Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt. As bunch of guys who didn’t even know the city, Gary, Rowena, Elan, Eric, Preet, Brian, and I managed to find all the clues and finish with 5 whole minutes left (though we had to sprint through the last 15 minutes). We’re pretty sure we got all the questions right, but I’ll link to the rankings page once it gets up.
The treasure hunt is basically a big clue solving quest where you start with a sheet of riddles and solve them to figure out the location in which the final question can be solved. There were couple of them that got us completely stuck and we had to make several trips back (and several detours due to the Chinese New Year parade that was going on at the same time) but we all had a blast seeing all the nooks and crannies of San Francisco. The Treasure Hunt took us through many parts of San Francisco that typical tourist won’t see and we all had a great time learning more about the city while solving all the quests. On top of that, we were walking around for good 4 hours (plus 15 minutes of running at the end) so we got a nice workout out of it as well. Anyway, all the pictures are located on my gallery.
With all the running and cycling and walking I’ve been doing lately… I’m going to be pretty sore tomorrow…
All Things Yummy » Things to do, places to see… Said,
April 10, 2006 @ 12:49 am
[…] Anyway, I’ve been thinking about joining a dragonboat team. I went to their kickoff event held in San Francisco and had a lot of fun running all around the city. Ironically enough, I’ve been to the city three times and pretty much all three times, I’ve been doing stupid things where I cover a lot of ground and get to run all over the city, but not actually “see” the city… One of these days, I’ll just go do some tourist stuff there instead… […]
L Said,
April 13, 2006 @ 10:38 pm
Treasure Hunt sounds like Race in the City which I’ve done a few times in Toronto.