AR Legs 8 & 9: Back on top....okay maybe not

If you will recall we started leg 8 in a 3 way tie for last place! Woohoo. But the thing about this game is things can change in a heartbeat. The first clue took us to the guard shack where we had to do push-ups, sit-ups and mountain climbers. Once those were complete we were given an empty cup and were told to search around the Fitness Center for a bucket of sand. We lucked out and found the bucket pretty quickly. We had to fill the cup with sand to the line which was about the halfway mark of the cup. After barely making the mark on our leg where we had to carry the coke we decided to fill it up almost full in case some came out we'd be okay. Once we fill up our cup we have to run to a little house behind the Health Care Center. I had no idea that little house even existed. It is amazing the things I've learned on this race. Once we were at the little house we had to do 100 jumping jacks....ugh!! After those were finished we were given a rope and were told to head to the soccer field. Once at the soccer field we had to put the rope through the brick that we had from the last leg and still had, then we had to balance the cup of sand on the brick and we had to finish the rest of the leg like that. The last part of the leg was to go to all 4 goals on the soccer field to figure out the clue to the pitstop. The clue actually had us go back to our very first clue to decipher the pitstop. Thank goodness we still had our first clue with us. We were told to go near the deer. Yep...it was the lovely UARGE tree again. I'm never going to get away from it! This leg we moved on up to THREE!!!!! Yes, our second best finish of the race! I'm on cloud 9.

Now leg 9 was a different story. Not so much on cloud 9 anymore. We started off great. We had to go through an obstacle course which we breezed through...then we had to take off our shoes and socks and one team member had to run from the softball field to the gym and return the brick that we had been carrying around for the past 2 legs. The other person had to run the bases on the softball field until the other person got back. I ran to the gym and my teammate ran the bases. Once I got back one team member had to do a softball toss. We had to toss a softball up on this hill and it had to land and stay in a hoola hoop. My teammate did a great job and did it pretty fast. So on we were to the next part of the challenge. We had to read this long and very confusing clue that told us to run out to the tobacco houses, however at the very bottom in tiny tiny print it said it was NOT at the tobacco houses and mentioned S overflow ( this is where cars can park over night if they are on company business). So we didn't bother running to the tobacco houses, we took off for S overflow. We searched and searched but nothing. We finally decided that maybe we should take off to the tobacco houses after all. As we started to do that we saw a large group coming back up the hill...it was not the right place to go so we were glad we didn't run all the way over there. We wondered around for what seemed like an eternity and finally decided to go back to the softball field and read the clue again.

By this time Jordan was cleaning everything up so we had to holler for him to wait! So we start trying to figure out the clue again and then we see it....for some reason now it seems plain as day, but before I didn't see it at all. There was a line that said to "ask for instructions". REALLY???? That' all we had to do the entire time??? UGH So Jordan smiles at us...flips over the folder and it says to go to the Aerobics room. So again, we ran around campus for nothing!!!

Once we made it to the aerobics room we had to get our picture taken in a Travolta cutout, then we had to do a quick 70s dance routine! That was the best part of the leg for me! Once we completed that part we had to search the woods for our next clue. We finally found it and it led us to a spot in front of the daycare center...our finish...second to LAST!! Oh well...we still have 3 more days of challenges therefore 3 more days to move our way into the top 3 so we can race on that final day....wish us luck!!!