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D. and I did the Valentine's Day Ravenchase in Philly today. It was the perfect (February) day to race, blue sky, cold but not inappropriately so (30s), and only a little wind. It was a little like our very first Ravenchase together in Baltimore which was also freezing. The major difference being that ellen_fremedon was also on our team then.
The race was a nice mix of locations (public buildings, park, plaza, and commercial art gallery, no cemetery woo!), clue types (find the plaque, puzzles--including one monster 4-part clue with a varying backward Cesar shift that took us a bit to solve, dig in the leaves for stuff, and talk to the actor, actually also sing to the actor and then he took our picture in front of the LOVE statue, awesome!), and group types (us, a veteran team that's done almost all the Philly races, some couples, a family, a birthday party, and a monster bachelorette party).
This is the first race that D. and I have done together, just the two of us. I was slightly concerned, but we worked very well together and had a great day.
As an extra-special bonus we came in first!
We solved all of the clues without any hints and were the first to the bar. The race was very well written as all the teams came in around the same time (within a half hour of each other I think). I think we might try to do some more by this couple. They do the northeast so Philly, Princeton, NYC, etc.
On our way out of town we stopped at Jim's and got cheesesteaks. I had never had a cheesesteak before in my life, isn't that strange? Anyway, they were really yummy and set us up well for the drive home.
The race was a nice mix of locations (public buildings, park, plaza, and commercial art gallery, no cemetery woo!), clue types (find the plaque, puzzles--including one monster 4-part clue with a varying backward Cesar shift that took us a bit to solve, dig in the leaves for stuff, and talk to the actor, actually also sing to the actor and then he took our picture in front of the LOVE statue, awesome!), and group types (us, a veteran team that's done almost all the Philly races, some couples, a family, a birthday party, and a monster bachelorette party).
This is the first race that D. and I have done together, just the two of us. I was slightly concerned, but we worked very well together and had a great day.
As an extra-special bonus we came in first!
We solved all of the clues without any hints and were the first to the bar. The race was very well written as all the teams came in around the same time (within a half hour of each other I think). I think we might try to do some more by this couple. They do the northeast so Philly, Princeton, NYC, etc.
On our way out of town we stopped at Jim's and got cheesesteaks. I had never had a cheesesteak before in my life, isn't that strange? Anyway, they were really yummy and set us up well for the drive home.
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