My alma mater hosts the world's largest Scavenger Hunt.  It lasts four days, involves hundreds of people, the "Scav Hunt Olympics", a road trip, and a list of 300 items, many of them crass or impossible.  (This year's hunt included a Zeusaphone, a Tessla coil digitized to play music, a road trip to Kansas, and getting Barak Obama's haircut from Barak Obama's barber.  One team achieved the Zeusaphone.  I don't know how many achieved the haircut.)

Reading about the Scav Hunt brought back all sorts of memories and inspired me to make a Family Scavenger Hunt for our family vacation.  Each team had two hours, a car, $20, and a camera, and tried to take as many of the photos on the list as possible.  Here's a selection of items from our list:

With a pirate

Making a pyramid in the sand

With a representative of the each following animal groups:

          Crustacean, Mammal, Bird, Reptiles, Fish

At a historic site involving malaria

On a bridge

With a person with a toothless grin

With a golfer

At court

At as many churches as possible

Sharing the most delicious dessert

With one team member as a sand sculpture

Sliding

With everyone’s toenails painted

Everyone participated with gusto, and (I think) had a good time. 

I'm hoping it will become a tradition.  I'm going to try to make a Scav Hunt photo book from everyone's photos.

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