Sydney Treasure Hunt - Just Trippin Dekiru Yo

On Saturday we competed in the Sydney Treasure Hunt which is a fundraiser for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. This is basically a team race around our great city in which your team gets clues and puzzles that you have to figure out to get to your next location where you get your next clue.

Usually a great day with lots of running and head scratching and today wasn’t going to be any different. This year our team consisted of Tsalina, Luke, YY, Karina and me. We were called Just Trippin Dekiru Yo.

The first clue saw us scratching our heads and running in a general direction. The clue was something like “After you eat 3 of these Ribs & Rumps, you may get your name on the wall but you won’t be able to climb the stairs” Which YY and I took as being Ribs & Rumps where if you eat 3 servings you get your name put on the wall in a brick. But the one I thought about was in Manly, and the one YY thought about was in Gordon. Karina suggested a place in Woolloomooloo which has some stairs that you run down. So we headed over there. But there was nothing.

So we just kept running around and around to every set of stairs in our zone. This one took us about 35-40mins and in the end we decided to run down to Opera House and luckily there it was. But one thing, they weren’t even on the stairs or near anything that resembled where they should be.

But anyway this really made us feel like being in the game, running around with no clear place to go. Oh what a feeling. Well after that first set back the rest was super cruisy. We raced from Opera house through to the Art Gallery, down to the pig near the State Library and then cleared the first two zones really quickly.


The next zone was around the central part around Hyde Park, down to QVB, Hilton Hotel, and Centrepoint. Our running was getting a bit fast and we seemed to be clearing the stages real quickly. Therefore based on our early forecast calculations we had time for a toilet break for the 2 girls.. I mean boys, YY and Luke.

Once we were all back into the action we headed to Darling Harbour area to “Share our story” down at the NT Tourist Office and raced around World Square, then to do our Chinese Laundry.

Clearing this zone we now had to head to the rocks which usually has causes some problems in the past. But this time we managed to get 4 out of the 5 real quickly and then we hit the super hard one which was something like “This hill was not cleared by a GBU28” now there was a few hills around the place and we figured it be some sort of gun placement or military thing. As we figured out that thee GBU28 was a bunker buster missile. But after running from Dawes Point Park to Observatory hill and back again, we couldn’t find anything and was starting to run low of water and getting tired.

We started to get really down. We been here for about 25mins now looking everywhere we thought we could think of, then we discovered a place called Bunker Hill and thought hey let’s give this a go. Low and behold we found it, and now the race was done. Time to run back to the finish line. I tried to take many short cuts but due to the multitude of construction happening in the city had to run a lot more than I thought. But in the end we sprinted home just in front of another team. We were quite confident we had won now, but finishing 20 mins before time and the presentation being 2 hours away the decision was made to go freshen up and stretch at fitness first.

Spent a bit of time stretching and mucking around on the bongo board, watching Luke and Tsalina trying to do moves on the bongo was funny. But after about 25 mins YY hadn’t showed up. Maybe he fell asleep in the car. But finally at about 2:50pm almost 1 hour later he shows. Tsalina, Karina and I decide that hang on, we better get down to the presentation by 3:30pm at least. So Luke waits for YY.

As we crossing Elizabeth St I look over and see that people are gathering around the podium and that they are clapping as people head up to the stage. Maybe they have started presentation and all. So we scoot along to the stage and just as we get there, you hear “and in third place” we thought ahhaha Luke and YY aren’t going to be here if we win this. “in second place was ….” Forgot the name.. the 2 still ain’t here. And finally “and the Winner of the City Treasure Hunt for 2006 is …. Just Trippin Dekiru Yo” Tsalina and Karina jump for joy as I run up with them to accept our prize. We pose for all the winner photos, with big smiles on our faces. There is still only 3 of us on the podium we keep thinking where are they… Now the winners had been announced everyone started congratulating us and mostly people filed away. But those 2 lovers still hadn’t showed. Until another 15 minutes passed. So we told YY and Luke that we hadn’t won and that we missed out. YY was devastated as he had done his hair and make up just for the occasion.

But in the end after all the laughter we let them in on our secret and we were now all going sailing. WOHOOO!!!!! Til next year!