Scavenger Hunt

This past weekend, the Wilhoite Family had our first (hopefully annual) family scavenger hunt. My dad and brother spent weeks plotting courses, making clues and planting clues all over the farm. 

We met at Grandma's old house (Auntie Jo's House now) and drew random numbers to be on teams. There were two teams: red and blue. I was on the blue team. We got our first clue that told us where to go, and we took off from there. Each clue was marked with an American flag. the clue was hidden within 20 feet of that flag. Once we found one clue, it sent us to the next clue. And along the way there were 'hidden objects' that you could find for extra points. We had pictures of where the object was to guide us. 

To  make sure we were on the right track, the trail was marked with blue ribbon showing us we were going the right way. Our team was lucky enough to have Philip and Joey running around ahead of us girls finding the clues and telling us where to go. Rachel was on my team and did good at finding the hidden objects. Matt was smart enough to make a rule that you couldn't tamper with the other teams clues or objects or you would be disqualified (mostly for JC's benefit). 

We made it to the bonfire first, thus winning the hunt. :) Then we had a bonfire dinner to celebrate Matt and Doug's birthday. 

winning team!!! 

the whole fam

It was a great night for it and we had so much fun. Thanks for all your hard work Matt and Dad!!! 

Prior to the start of the games, I got to shoot my new gun:) (not necessarily something I wanted but was given it and was told it was 'nonnegotiable'.) Philip bought some exploding targets and watching him, matt and Rachel shoot them was so funny!!! Rachel was quite the shot ;)