Matts Amazing Race ..

If you have the pleasure of living in Hamilton NZ then Saturday 29th .. just gone you may have seen some peculiar activity all over town ,

Groups of people in costumes ranging from Mad wig wearing families … Pirates of Waipuna,   Black wearing Bogans,   Peter pan and his Posse and a groups of Batty Nanas, then you probably saw us participating in Matts Amazing Race… My nephews 30th birthday bash.

 We all gathered at his home (HQ) and were given an instruction pack. .. then told to be back at HQ 2 hours after we left.

The teams all raced out the driveway to the road and off to start the race and we were ambushed by my great nephews and their friends, waiting in the gardens by the gate with hoses and buckets and water bombs. ..

TOH was the instruction reader in the back, I drove , Mum in the front and my sister Barb in the middle.

We had a list of 30 things to do .

Collect a real estate agents card , a yellow flower, a beer bottle top, the receipt from a bar in town where you bought a round of drinks including a white wine and a light beer, , photos of you doing a brown eye on the bridge, photo with a 2009 holden ute, photos with team members at Mc Donalds, photos of you in the fountain in town, photos with this statue and that statue , and photo of a strangers nipple.. just some of the weird and wonderful things we did.. aswell as finding info at parks , cemeteries and shops all over Hamilton.

Mum is going to be 80 next April .. this was her first Car Rally.. we have not laughed so much in  for ever.. she was right into it .. when we pulled up on the footpath to get a photo of a strangers nipple she was the one who wound down the window and asked this young man walking down the street if he could help us out .. and then TOH and Barb fell out of the back of the van and surrounded him ..lol the look on his face..

She was not scared about getting into anything .. the rat wheel at the park .. we had to have a photo or video taken of two team members in the rat wheel .. Mum was in there .. but then realised that it moved freely and was quite nervous about falling .. but telling me to get the shot taken .. kids all around the park were amazed that a granny had got in the rat wheel and the younger ones tried to turn it .. eeeeekkk ,, no thank you. a broken hip was not on the list of challenges.

she ran , she yelled instructions and she got out of the car at every stop. .. she was amazing .. and her costume was a riot.

by the end we were knackered, hot and bothered and dying for a drink.. TOH and Barb had been the ones to down shots and beers and go to the bars.. Mum and I went around the block and got parks..

we missed one challenge on the list , it had to be done in a certain time frame and we missed it .. but still made 4th place …

and our team won Most Imaginative and received a certificate and a prize pack.

I won Most Daring.. and received a prize pack and a certificate also..

this is why !!!

 The Team Batty Nanas

 
Two team members must change clothes completely

 
My awesome Mum ..

 
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