We're big fans of the TV show The Amazing Race and decided to create a weekend adventure for the kids based on the show. I wrote a bunch of clues modeled after the show, made arrangements for a weekend away, and told the kids that they would be leading the family to someplace cool just like on TV. Sam is up for anything so he instantly thought it would be fun, but Sara is more apprehensive of the unknown and told me it would suck. Well, we had a pretty cool adventure planned so I was quite sure the sucking would be minimal. Anyway, we set out early on Saturday morning and Sara figured out the first clue, a word scramble, in about two seconds. Not that impressive, except that the word was in Norwegian. The clue told them to go to the train station in Åndalsnes, about 100 km away, but that's all they knew until we got there. The next clue was a bit harder, but they could choose between a trivia question that I thought might be hard, or a pictogram that my mother thought was hard. Luckily they went with plan B, and they solved the puzzle to discover that we were headed on the train to Lilly Blacksmith. Um, no. Try again. Take the train to Lilly Smith? Nope. Lilly Hammer? Yup, we were going to the site of the 1994 winter Olympics: Lillehammer, Norway.
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