My Birthday Photo Scavenger Hunt: In Search of the Big Three-Oh
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Turning 30 is...interesting. Turning 30 with all your friends around being silly is AWESOME.
The best part was that my party was ON my ACTUAL birthday! So Saturday afternoon had us all in West Hollywood, ready to take a bunch of bizarre pictures. For those of you who are not familiar with the rules, it goes something like this:
1. YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO TURN IN 10 PICTURES PER TEAM!
Exception: the series options in “Actions” category in which that series will count as 1 picture
2. EACH PICTURE MUST HAVE 2 OR MORE ITEMS IN IT!
The idea is that you’re trying to cram as many items into 10 pictures as possible. (The series option in the “Actions” category is the only exception)
3. SCORING: Each object in the picture earns 1 point unless marked otherwise.
a.Multiples of objects earn 1 extra point each.
b. 1 extra point is awarded per stranger that is intentionally involved in your pictures (random passersby do not count).
c. You will not receive points for the same item in multiple pictures
4. Time limit: 1.5 hours from the time the hunt starts
With those rules in mind, we set out of the apartment and took WeHo by storm. It was amazing how many people really wanted to be involved in our pictures! Here are a few:
I love the fact that we forced 4 random people to crowd into a bathroom at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Notice that the one in the back does *not* look happy!
The best part was finding a shopping cart to take pics of shopping cart race, but having no one to race. At that moment, the guy with the long beard in the back rolled up. Perfect! We raced. We lost. lol
Nothing makes a birthday complete like a gold bikini!
This was their version of “crowding a public bathroom stall"--it was definitely creative!
The best part was their series shot of “Transforming like an Autobot.”
"Autobots! TRANSFORM!
*sounds of tranforming*
"Tadah! I’m a car!"
You can check out the entire album at my Picasa Web Album
After all the running around, we had Okonomiyaki, a savory Japanese pancake. The 3 grill that we had going kept shorting out the circuits! So we ended up cooking and eating in candle light. How romantic! lol
And the best part is, our neighbor called the police on us twice that night! While I’ll admit we were very loud with almost 26 people in apartment all haggling over point, but that was at 6 pm! The first time one sheriff came at 9 pm, there were 9 of us left, cleaning up and barely talking. There was no music or anything. He apologized, “someone called and we have to come check it out.”
After that we had a small game of Taboo - it wasn’t even loud! Then more people left and then there were 5 of us. That’s when the 2 other sheriffs showed up. It was hilarious! They looked so confused! “It seems your neighbors sleep really early,” they said. Can you imagine cops busting 5 people for being disruptive and rowdy? We were cleaning again and sitting on the floor and using our laptops. Wow. That’s ROWDY. hahaha
It all made for a great birthday with great stories. Thanks everyone for being a part of it and making this birthday the best!
At least with all the sheriff visits, there wasn’t a last photo of everyone in a line-up or prison cell.
That reminds me of a TOTALLY different story that by boss told me. He grew up in Jersey and was put into the “drunk tank” one evening when he was young after being noisy and disruptive. Here’s the best part, he got into a fight with a guy in the cell. All of a sudden, the guy whips off his artificial leg and starts beating my boss with it like a shoed flail!! The police finally took the guy’s leg away. Anywhooooo. . . glad you had a great Three-Oh!!
Posted by on 11/20 at 07:50 PMlooks like alot of fun.
happy belated btw (:
did you guys go to melrose? one of those stores looks like aardvarks
Posted by will is on 11/24 at 11:41 AMWhat is wrong with your neighbors?! Did you confront them? How rude!
Posted by on 11/24 at 06:56 PMher neighbors are just jealous because we had tons of fun, true kathy form! it was pretty funny to be one of the 5 left behind, talking quietly to each other, and answering the doorbell to see 2 cops who did not want to be there, wondering who the hell complains about the noise us 5 were making! =)
we should do that again!!
Posted by kimi =) on 11/26 at 03:26 PM