If I had a nickle for everytime I've said adults need playgrounds, I would be making way more than my blogging earnings. My sister and brother in law take my nephew to gymnastics and sure they have a great time watching him , but I just know that they would love to do those things to. They only get to jump in the balls or swing from the ropes under the premise that they are going in to rescue their little guy from an onslaught of older kids. Why aren't adult playgrounds more common? Am I alone in my thoughts of how awesome they would be? I saw an article on playgrounds for the elderly in England, and they had machines that . But they had a gymy/physical therapyness feel ahhh the fun. Imagine of instead of going to the gym and, you went and raced people in obstacles, leaping over things, climbing, swinging and being a kid
The adult playground idea started me thinking about the awesome games I've had a chance to play as an adult and a kid and games I've heard about and want to one day play. This week I will discuss games that are stewing around in my head and I hope to eventually transform some of these into apps or give them a way to make them more accessible and common, again to bring more engagement to everyday life. If you think any of these have potential and you have the vision to transform them into apps, please do, I want to play!!!
Halloween Costume Road Rally (found through meetup.com, an awesome site, check it out if you haven't yet and are looking for active people with tons of hobbies)
Ah it was the absolute best. We met at a library on a normal day. We were wondering if we were in the right place because the clue to the start location was in symbols. Fortunately we spotted a person in a full out cow costume, adorable, and were more convinced we were at the right location (although you never know). We saw more costumed contestants streaming into the library and followed them to a large room. Everyone was seated at tables, rules were gone over and teams were given an envelope. With a ready set go, the envelopes were opened and puzzle pieces fell out. Although the puzzle was simple, I could not believe how much my hands were shaking as we put it together. We got it together and read the clue on the back and dashed to the mall, where our task was to find the carrying capacities or various department store elevators.
There was such excitment in these clues that were not extremely complicated, but definitely required some brain power and physical prowess. Other highlights of the race included:
a race using various sized shoes (flippers, heels, clown shoes...)
figuring out a clue that appeared to be in Chinese script but was actually in English, decipherable when flipped on the side (they sneakily sent us to a Chinese restaurant and so everyone assumed you were supposed to ask the workers to help translate it, that really caused some tense moments with my team)
Blog schedule for this week
Wednedsay: Assassins
Thursday: Hash house harriers
Friday: Billy L. and kleenex
Saturday: Cottage version of amazing race
Be sure to catch this weeks articles! In the words of Kenny Bania, "Why do they call it ovaltine? The mug is round, the jar is round. They should call it roundtine." Actually, I think Bania's "that's gold Jerry gold!" is more appropriate.
On the game front, I am continuing to read Tapworthy and really trying to hone in on a simple design that brings all the necessary aspects of Geopopper in a simple, concise way.
Zorro's corner and Everything is going to be alright will appear in blogs later this week,
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