It took us over 4-hours to do the Challenge as we scavenger-hunted throughout the streets of Philly. Today my feet hurt and my legs are sore, but the Gorilla Challenge was so much freaking fun!
“Gorilla Challenge is an ‘Amazing Race’ style event, combined with ‘Fear Factor’ and the ‘American Idol’ where you and your team race to solve clues around the city, taking pictures in silly to crazy poses, completing fun/difficult/gross activities, hoping you either get the grand prize or at least mini prizes along the way, and having loads of fun!”
We gathered at my good friend Kristi’s (left in pink). This is where I met the other awesome gal pals. My scavenger hunt crew!
Once we got to Philly and checked-in, Kristi suggested we kill some time before the event kicked off. In a bar. At 9:30am. LOL! (eh, the bar was right next door)
And this is my first reaction to someone’s suggestion that I do my very first shot ever in life. As you can see, I was kinda on the fence about it.
…and I obviously needed some help.
Our first clue led us to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier monument. The rules said we had to snap a picture, saluting.
But not all the clues were easy! It took us awhile to find the park where Kristi had to have an ocean of vinegar sprayed into her mouth before we could earn our next 6 clues.
Philadelphia Theatre Company (where we had to strike a Charlie’s Angels pose), was NOWHERE near the vinegar-spraying park. Geeeze! It was miles of walking ’round that city.
And then we walked for many more blocks (sometimes in the wrong direction) to get to the place where we had to form a human pyramid.
Most of the clues were VERY hard. The hunt was so difficult that not even the Philly locals could show us the way. Don’t they look confused?
But we did briefly meet up with Fred, Wilma and Baby Pebbles to compare scavenging notes. We helped each other solve a few more clues.
After over 4-hours of flexing our muscles around the city, we couldn’t figure out the rest of the clues (we got 8 out of 12) and ran out of time.
So we collected our beaded necklaces and cheered on our fellow Gorilla-ers who won the cash prizes. Oh, and then we had a greedy fro down, of course. My azz was hungry! I gnawed on nachos, a turkey burger and sweet potato fries.
The Gorilla Challenge also has a charity component. They’ve partnered with Accerlated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis AND collected our canned good donations on the day of the event to benefit the local food bank.
You gotta check out the website to see if the Gorilla is coming to a city near you!
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