Josh's Birthday

Thursday was Josh's birthday. Our family celebration was low key and at home - that's how we have chosen to celebrate with a little baby in the house. We celebrated again on Saturday with Josh competing with Brandon in the Great Urban Race, San Francisco. This race resembles the amazing race except that its done in one day and in one city.

Josh and Brandon have been gearing up for this day for about a month. They were at an advantage having Brandon's knowledge of the city and public transit. Brieanne and I along with Brandon's mom Linda and Josh's dad, Gary were on internet duty looking up anything they needed to help them solve clues. We were also counting on my parents knowledge until we found out the morning of the race that my mom was competing in the race with a friend and my dad had defected to her support team.



Reading over the clues before taking off.

Saturday dawned hot even for San Francisco. The hunt took the guys to several spots all over the city. Brieanne, Linda and Gary were way more help than I was. Claire and I played support to the support team, well, to Brieanne at least.

Team Pizza Pirate Command Post at the Prescott Hotel. Doesn't Brieanne look the part?Claire was more interested in rolling around and chewing on her toes than surfing the internet for San Francisco trivia.

Life back at the command post...carrots.

Josh and Bradon in front of the Transamerica building.

Eating corn for a challenge.

Shaking a dogs paw for one of the challenges.

Great Urban Race Contestants. Check out Brandon in the Orange Wheaties t-shirt.