Random event I wish I participated in

City Chase 2004. Doesn't that sound like the coolest event? It's The Amazing Race meets Fear Factor meats Survivor...all in your very own city. I was driving around downtown on Sunday afternoon and came across random people all wearing the same black and green dri-fit shirts with numbers (like they were in a marathon). The shirts said "City Chase" and they were all running around (in groups of 2) following instructions/directions on a sheet of paper. I was talking with my friend Mona who did the event on Saturday. Yesterday, she was telling me all about it. There were 400 teams of 2 people. Each pair had to run around the city as far east as The Beaches, as far North as Yonge/Lawrence and as far west as Parkdale/Highpark. They had to walk, run or take the TTC every where they went and at each "Chasepoint", they had to do something (a word jumble, solving clues to a puzzle, pick up gross things from an aquarium with snakes and mice, panhandle for $5 for charity and chip a ball into a golf hole (and strip if they missed)). All sorts of random activities. You had 6 hours to complete 10 out of the 15 tasks that were scattered around the city and then the fastest team won. This event was sponsored by Bell and has already taken place in Vancouver and Edmonton and is going to Montreal and Ottawa among other cities I think. Registration for the event was $150/team but I think well worth it given the amount of fun it must have been. The oldest team was a combined age of 109 or something like that and the youngest were about 39 (I think you had to be minimum 18 years old).

I totally wish I had known about that event. It sounds amazing and like something I would definitely want to do. I've always wanted to do a big scavenger hunt type game in the city. Perhaps this will give me some ideas to plan something in the future.

Beach Volleyball - episode 6 or 7

Yesterday, we had another steller day of beach volleyball. It was awesome - we had almost 20 people turn out during the day. There were friends from grade school, high school, university, my childhood and a couple that I just met 2 weeks ago. All in all - it was a lot of fun and the weather totally held up for us (thank you mama nature) although it was a tad on the hot side (very unexpected, actually). I really love beach volleyball and hanging out at Ashbridge's Bay. It's such a great sport and an awesome area to chill.

Movie Opinion - Fahrenheit 9/11

Great Movie. Very interested to see all the goings on in the film. I was very surprised to hear about all of the corporate and business connections b/w the Saudi's and the Bush's. I agree with a lot of Michael Moore's opinions but I'm not sure if I completely like the way he goes about saying it. At times, it was a bit too much on the sensationalistic side but I guess he does that to prove a point. The satire, "western themes" and random snipits of old footage are absolutely hilarious and definitely added to the look and feel of the movie. One downside was that I was in the third row of the theatre (cause we got there a little on the late side). Overall, a good film and a must-see for all. I wonder how much it affected Canadian election results. We'll see in a few hours I guess.

By the way, if you are Canadian and you haven't voted yet - you've still got 1 hour and 7 minutes left so get your ass out there and vote!