I’m tired.
I didn’t sleep well last night because I was nervous about the Corporate Challenge event today. Unknown Challenge. I had to be at West Edmonton Mall by 8:15. I would have taken my scooter, but it was raining. It has actually been raining all day. If you have to be stuck in a mall all day, this was the day.
On a personal note: I hate West Edmonton Mall. None of the natives go there, it’s just the tourists. I only seem to go when relatives are visiting, or something forces me to go. Like a movie. I think they don’t pump enough oxygen in that place because it always sucks the life out of me. The only store I really like there is the Garden Bakery, conveniently close to the movie theatre. They have really good deserts at cheap prices. Anyway, back to the Corporate Challenge.
The first event was at Galaxyland. It was one of the rides where you sit in chairs on a revolving platform and use laser guns to hit as many small green lights as possible. I don’t know how well we did, but it was fun. Afterwards, we had to wait around 45 minutes for the next event.
The second event was a scavenger hunt (their term, not mine). We were given a list of twenty questions that we had to get the answers to. We split into two teams, connected by cell phones. We were doing fairly well, but we got tripped up by trying to find the Kang Hsi vase. We found several vases all over the mall, but couldn’t find the Kang Hsi one. We eventually got it, but we wasted a lot of time doing so. It was a fun event though.
The third event was the food challenge. Lloyd was to try and finish a tub of foreign ice cream in two and a half minutes. Tania had to shovel it into his mouth. This was in front of the Asian megafood store, so the ice cream flavors were weird. He nearly finished his tub in the time allotted. After that we went to Moxies for lunch. Lloyd didn’t have much to eat.
The fourth event was at the shooting range. I thought that we could get the people who had experience shooting to do it. But since Tania and Lloyd had done the food challenge, Patti and I had to do the shooting range. Five bullets and a target. I didn’t like it. Guns make me nervous. I tried to be calm when a was squeezing the trigger, but with loud bangs happening all around me, that was difficult. I was able to hit my paper all five times, but only three were in the target area. Patti only hit her paper twice, and none were in the target.
By the time the last challenge came around we were pretty lethargic. Mall air. It was a short and simple one. Two people (Lloyd and Patti) were blindfolded and the other two (Patti and me) had their hands tied. The blindfolded people had to put a jigsaw puzzle together while the others directed them. We didn’t do that well. The big problem wasn’t getting the pieces into the correct spots, but getting the pieces to fit together. It is apparently very hard to do when you are blindfolded.
We’ve now been given a list of some other challenges we have to do during the week, but anyone from our companies can do them. We did find that one was at the Argyll Plaza Hotel where my parents stayed last week. I’ll probably be doing that one. I don’t have a lot of time for this though because I have a busy schedule during the week.
Overall, the challenge was fun except for the long wait times between events. I think they had those so the challengers would spend time shopping.
I’m taking it easy for the rest of the week. I’m not going to New City tonight, and I’ll probably sleep in tomorrow. I need to do some treadmill still.