Yumm!!! Gummies...AR Leg 11

No...we didn't get to eat them...although I suppose we could have, but then what if we didn't have enough for our project? That would not have been cool.

So our leg started off today outside near the back entrance to the gym and around a corner so we could not see where anyone was going. We lucked out that the weather was awesome. During the morning hours it poured cats and dogs and we all totally thought we'd be running around campus in the pouring rain As luck would have it the sun came out, but alas we didn't do a lot of running. We were inside for everything...figures.

Our first clue sent us to a building in the gym where we had to head down to the basement. While in the elevator we had to choose between two tasks: Stack or Support. Stack had to stack a bunch of playing cards to a certain height. Support had to use gummies and toothpicks to create a support system for two tennis balls. Each tennis ball had to stay on the support and it at to be a minimum of 3 inches tall. We chose support.

So, I don't know how long it really took us to do it, we weren't in the top teams leaving, but it also didn't feel like we were in there forever. We got our first little tower done and it held the tennis ball so we moved on to the next. By the time we finished our second one our first one wasn't looking so hot so we had to do some quick reinforcements.  I guess we could have had her measure our first one while it was working and then went on to the second, but I didn't think of that til just now. You know hind sight. :-)  Ours ended up measuring 4 inches tall each. Yeah, we're over achievers! I wonder if we had any extra gummies...I should have taken some for the road.


Once we got our clue we had to head up to the aerobics room for slide or shuffle. We had to choose which person was IN and which was OUT without knowing what we were to do yet. Allison chose OUT so I was IN. I had to get on a slide and work my inner thighs while Allison had to use a band and go from side to side working her outter thighs. Not so bad right? WRONG. We had to do it for three minutes. That seemed like an eternity. Pam finally said.."one minute" and I thought whew, that is good. Oh...no, that wasn't a one minute warning as in you only have a minute left....that was a you've only been doing this for a minute. UGH REALLY??? Pam started telling jokes, but I don't think that really helped to get my mind off the torture I was going through.  If that is what slide class is like I don't ever want to go.


Once our 3 days...I mean 3 minutes...of sliding were up we got our clue to head to the pool deck for the pitstop. Team number 10! WHAT? Ugh we only moved up one spot?? Next Tuesday is our last day and our last time to get into the top 3 so we can race on the final day. I will be very disappointed if we can't make it into the top 3.  I had a couple people ask me after the leg today as I was leaving if I put the "Amazing" in "Amazing Race" today. Uh folks, that would be a negative. There was nothing "Amazing" about it...except maybe that it was "amazing" that our gummy structure stood long enough to get measured.

Until Tuesday....