My mission began with a mysterious manila envelope:
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| Who could it be from?!?! |
Inside the envelope was a piece of paper with instructions and items on it:
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| I made this game so that you can solve the Mystery Birthday Trip. You can get as many clues as you want but for every clue you must draw a 'Chance Card'. The 'Chance Card' may be something for you or something for your husband or both. Good Luck!!!! (love the mystery font) |
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| 10 items listed on the back of the card |
Since it was getting late, he told me to do this one first:
And let me tell you.... I screamed when I found it.... in an "I'm scared" way, not an excited way. You'll see why:
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| All I saw was eyes at first |
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| Quite the sight (good thing Adnan wasn't there, he would've fainted) |
Once I got the fabulous creature down I found THIS inside!
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| Looks like something's written on it! |
Off to collect more items!!
SO, after looking through HALF my shoes I got a little tired and was introduced to the CHANCE CARD BAG:
If I get stuck I can get a hint BUT I have to draw a Chance Card task. It might be something for me or it might be something for the husband. Here's my first one:
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| I'm lucky!! New clothes for me when I present this card! :) |
My hint is "I'm all the colors and I'm none of the colors"... WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?! Wait, the absence of color is black and the combination of colors is white (depending on whether it's subtractive mixing or additive mixing) so that means the shoes are black & white?!
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| It took me a long time to find this one. It was actually taped to the inside of the tongue with the color side covered so it blended in with the white of the shoe. Sneaky devil. |
NEXT!
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| Seriously? TO THE CHANCE CARD BAG! |
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| This is definitely working out in my favor :) |
My hint is "The color red, watered down".
Good thing I don't have a lot of pink shirts <--sarcasm
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| Had to turn the shirt inside out BUT I FOUND IT!!! |
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| Yay! An easy one!! |
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| Nice! Under the first one I checked! |
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| Another easy one! I only have like 5 or 6 lamps. :) |
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| Luck is my lady tonight... another "first one I checked"! |
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| ..............HA HA HA HA! Chance Card Bag. |
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| Finally one for the Husband. So apparently this means he gets sole control of our listening selection. :/ I can deal with that. |
My hint is "I'm brown". What? "I'm brown"? Really? Ok. So after looking through 4 of my many purses that could be considered brown I ask, "You're not color blind right? Like, you wouldn't label 'cream' as 'brown' would you?" Husband says no. But he give me a free hint "Look in the mirror" which confirms to me that he actually IS color blind because my gray purse is by my mirror. :)
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| It's not brown. It's gray. Just take my word for it. |
Onward!!
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| We might have a FEW games in our collection between the xbox, ps3, gamecube, pc, wii, super nintendo, and nes sooooo I'm going straight for the draw. |
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| Appropriate? |
My hint: "She solves clues, just like you!" OH OH I KNOW! My answer: "...and her name is Nancy Drew!!"
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| Thankfully I let my bestest borrow all of my Nancy Drew games and I only have one at my house. :) |
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| Yeaaaaah, CHANCE CARD! |
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| Ha ha |
HINT: "KA-CHOW!!!!"
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| Cars of course! :) |
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| We have but one desk. |
Last one!
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| o.O |
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| WOOT!! So even if we've had La Fiesta 5 nights in a row! That's right. ;) (located in West Point on Hwy 45alt) |
Hint: "I'm in a skirt" It's a miracle I got this one on the first try. :)
That's it!! That's all the pieces!
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| Now to... ASSEMBLE! |
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| SPELL ME 8665269 ???????????? |
TO THE CELL PHONE! It spells "toolbox"!!
TO THE TOOLBOX!!
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| What's this? A diploma?! |
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| My first response: "You spelled bored wrong... and expose" Husband: "Diiiid IIIII???" He knows me too well. |
Hmmm, Board, Wall, Calendar?, Expo?.... Ah HA!
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| Please ignore that my calendar still says February. |
But I see nothing! Wait, maybe it's behind it! GASP!
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| So here is the last and final clue. It's not on a shirt and it's not in a shoe. If you need a hint, draw from "Chance Cards 2" But be forewarned there is nothing in it for you. It's all for your awesome handsome husband Drew. |
The back:
Some of these were a little on the difficult (and weird) side so....
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| What's this?!?!?! A SECOND Chance Card Bag?! Stop the madness!! |
All in this bag is for the husband... what trickery is this... I draw....
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| GASP!! IT... CAN'T... BE... What is this feeling?! I... my vision is blurry.... cough cough..... Well played, Mr. Lowrimore. Well played. |
I had to draw a few times from the Chance Card 2 bag. There were a couple "Take a Vacation" cards, a "Going Fishing" card, a "Romantic getaway" card and so on.
AND FINALLY the Mystery Birthday Trip is REVEALED!!
SO EXCITED! We're going to visit my friends Julie & John for my birthday! And we're doing this:
http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/ (Dolphins! EEE!!)
AND THIS:
http://www.medievaltimes.com/atlanta/abouttheshow.aspx
AND most wonderfully THIS:
I'M SO EXCITED! :)
