Celebrating the New Year with a bunch of adventure racers was a blast. Just a few of the memorable moments...
- Leanimal's amazing ability to communicate just about anything in Charades - with near-military efficiency
- The astounding, decisive defeat of the women's team in the Smart Mouth game, which ought to have favoured our superior verbal skills, but apparently we left them at home.
- Slice's inspired performance that enabled us to guess the movie title: "Playboy's Wet and Wild 3". One glass of wine later, we had no luck guessing the song "Foxy Mop Handle Mama", even though her fox impression was excellent, in retrospect.
- Hansel spinning around the lawn in the rain, holding a burning Roman candle and accompanying each ball of fire into the sky with a pelvic thrust. Fortunately, he suffered no collateral damage.
- Saying farewell to AndyCam as he heads out on a 3-month cycling stage race through Africa (
www.tourdafrique.com). They're raising money to buy local bikes for African healthcare workers.
- On the Citytv New Year's special, the jazz singer who performed Auld Lang Syne was wearing the World Wildlife Fund's "Hotter than I should be" T-shirt. Very appropriate as she stood there in the rain at the end of southern Ontario's warmest December on record. :-(
- But definitely, the race was the highlight - tearing through an unfamiliar neighbourhood, leaping streams, frantically scribbling down answers to clues on the run, and trash talking the opposition at every chance meeting.