Strawberry Festival Road Rally

Troy's Annual Strawberry Festival is a big tahdoo. It's the first full weekend of June. However, in the weeks leading up to the Festival...there are a lot of activities people can participate in. One of them is called a Road Rally Adventure. My cousin, Tracy, read about it in the paper, and invited a group of us to partake in it with her. Some ladies couldn't go at the last minute, so it ended up being me, Tracy, Buffy and Erica. We went into this activity blind, because we hadn't ever done it before. It ended up being a TON of fun, and we had a blast doing it together. It started off at an insurance company down town, and was very much like our own Troy version of the Amazing Race! (I love that show BTW!) You had to follow clues to take you to different locations, and then perform tasks once there. All the while, earning points, towards becoming The Strawberry Festival Road Rally champions. Also, enroute to each location, there were tons of trivia questions about what you see, and the City of Troy or the Festival to answer, which you had to turn it before leaving the location. ALSO, there was a bit of a Poker Run, where at each location, you drew a card at random, and tried to get the best Omaha Poker hand at the final destination. Our first location ended up being a small little bar between Troy and Piqua called Jester's. The task here was to shoot a game of 3 ball. Each of the 4 people on our team, had to complete each task. So, needless to say, shooting pool is NONE of our fortay. Our husbands, yes, but us, not so much! Buffy rocked this activity, and I didn't do great, and poor Erica, well, let's not talk about it! Hee hee! After that bit of slow torture, it was on to our next task. Over to Hole Hunters to play golf! OMG! Another task that is not our thing! LOL! We had to take a chipping wedge and chip it into these numbered clothes baskets. Buffy rocked this activity too! Next we were to go to task #3 which was Hillbilly Golf, or ladder ball for those of you who are more refined and civilized! hee hee! Tracy was nervous, because she'd never played this before. I can't belive that since we have it here, but I guess we're too busy doing other stuff to have done this. But, luckily Buffy and I rock at this usually, and we LOVE to play it, so all was looking up with the world, by the time we got here! Hooray! Tracy did good though, and for once, ME TOO!

Then, we were sent to a spa (my fave! LOL) and were asked to answer a questionnaire about all kinds of spa things! My dream! We rocked this one too, naturally! And, we played a game of chance by drawing numbers to see who could get the highest as a combined team. Needless to say, we got HUGE numbers, and so, basically we won this leg! Hooray for us! Last it was to a local restaurant called The Caroline. There they had a spread of various yum-o appetizers for us, more trivia, and then the announcing of the winners of the race. Thank goodness there was an open bar! Some of the other team personalities were a bit of a lot to bear, and the alcohol helped immensely! Hee hee! Needless to say, we had a great poker hand if we were playing Texas Hold 'Em, but not so much for Omaha. Drat! And, overall, we took 3rd place. Not bad for our innagural year! Next year we'll kick some Team Glover booty!!!!! All in all, we had a really fun time doing such a cool activity. And, just like the shirts say, we are Team Queen--Queens of Fun!!!!!