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Ok team three, we may not be the number one team but we can compete against ourselves. Here are some numbers from our last two weeks: WEEK 1: 7263 minutes/ 420 challenge points Week 2: 8020 minutes /410 challenge points We had a significant increase in our minutes but the drop in challenge points ended up being the thing…

@sandkp, I feel your pain with having a child working on college choices but you've got a lot more on your hands with sports. Good luck! @Dictorbutt, I'm happy you had such a miraculous recovery! Welcome back to the living. @BJerzy , I'm so sorry things are crazy. I understand if you need to leave but we will miss you.…

I'm so proud of you all. We made it! I want to give a special thanks to @change04 @cherilels82 and @alipsie19 for maxing out their minutes and getting us to our destination. Let's finish strong and get some challenge points!

5 foods: Wheat bread Eggs Chicken Watermelon Sweet potatoes (It's what I eat all of the time plus my favorite fruit :) ) I would love to learn to sing harmony. I was actually in a singing group for 13 years but I always sang Soprano. I could only sing alto if I didn't know the song and just learned the alto part. My mom,…

Good Morning! time for school! If anyone would like to get the feel of the island on a school day watch here:\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzSY10gVyI

Oh, my favorite healthy snack is something I've been reading since I was a kid, an Apple and peanut butter. My mom would cut an Apple in half and cut out the center and stem, then fill the center with peanut butter. My daughter once called it "an Apple cut in cages". I guess she thought it was like trapping the peanut…

If you can still track your calories and post any active minutes, that will help. Unfortunately, the race organizers don't cut us any slack when we have someone down. So, team we are going to have to work hard this week! We have several players who are down. Anyone who can do a little extra, that would be wonderful. Those…

@alipsie19 I'm so sorry to hear about your dog. I'm happy he made it through surgery and that you have time to have some adventures with him. I'm going to the doctor tomorrow and will get info on what I'm allowed to do now that it's been a few days after surgery. I'm hoping to be cleared for the bike. I can get a lot of…

I love field trips! I'd say, if it's beyond your normal rate of activity, count the minutes. Have a great time!

Where do they find these locations? I hadn't heard of our location before and now I want to travel there. Maybe in heaven I'll make it to all of these places. There are so many amazing places in the world, I don't think I will make it to all that I'd like to visit. @alipsie19, your into made me smile. Good job on the…

@change04, the pictures are beautiful! We made It just in time for the beginning of the Lunar New Year. @enuf200, what is a ringette game? I'm also curious about exam week. It sounds like what would be the end of term here but I never look forward to the end of term because it's so crazy with kids trying to finish projects…

Congratulations on making it to China! Since I have time on my hands (sitting around recovering from surgery) I looked through our intros and have some fun facts to share about our team: 1. We have 26 children, 24 grandchildren, 5 dogs and 7 cats (sorry @Dictorbutt, cats won, but you helped significantly with that number.…

I agree! Way to keep us in the race @change04! We seem to be the only team with several missing players. I'm contacting them but If you know any of them and could help me reach out, that would be great. If anyone has problems with the spreadsheets, I'm happy to enter minutes for people. I didn't have oranges on hand on…

Hello everyone! It's great to meet all of you. 1. NAME: Shauna. I'm a 41 year old mother of 5 (four are teenagers and luckily I have a wonderful husband who helps me stay sane when I start to loose it.) I've done all but the first Amazing Race and am so grateful to our incredible organizers. My mom, @bloveless has been…

I'm so excited to be going to China! Years ago my husband served an LDS mission in Taiwan so he speaks Mandarin and my two youngest children are in a Chinese immersion program at school so if I ever make it to China, I'll have three interpreters with me. It's really fun when my husband and kids speak Chinese because nobody…

Team 3! I'm so excited to be you're captain. I've heard great things about all of you and can't wait to get to know you on this fitness adventure around the world. I've always wanted to go to London and am happy that I get to be here with you, feeling the excitement of the beginning of the race. Can't wait to find out…

We ended in 5th place! I'm proud of our team. We had such a revolving door if teammates rotating in and out that I am amazed we were able to stay out of last place. Way to go everyone!

I completed challenge #2 todayKAUAI, HAWAII: “HIKING THE NA PALI COAST”. It sure didn't feel like Hawaii this morning. 23 degrees (real feel of 13) but I made it 4 miles outside. There's nothing like exercising outside!

8 lifestyle choices to continue 1 Counting calories really counts! 2 Keep drinking water. It fills me up and keeps my mind clear. 3 Communication within a team is key 4 Being active every day is important 5 New dance videos are fun and I should keep dancing with the Peruvian guy! 6 Eating a variety of colors is fun and…

In the Q&A thread this answer was given by hawkins410: You don't have to do BOTH challenges from a country, just ONE of the challenges. So if you'd like to do the stairs from either Transylvania or Peru, go ahead.

Hello team six! Anyone out there. ..........or are you all caught up with holiday craziness? We are about to go into a crazy time. My daughter is a student body officer at her high school and tomorrow is the big kick off for their charity fundraiser "Silver Rush" She will be spending every day from dawn until dusk trying…

Off to Peru! The dressed up guinea pigs crack me up. It's like the funny cat pictures you see online but its real life!

I had an awesome Thanksgiving full of family and great food! I think it's time to stop playing around and get back to watching what I eat :smile: I had a beautiful run down Yellowfork canyon with my friends to compete the Turkey Trot challenge. The only problem is that my fracture in my tibia is coming back to haunt me. 7…

@change04 I'm so happy to have you back on my team! I'm sorry to hear about all that your son went through. I'm happy to hear things are getting better.

I'm happy to see some great challenges for this holiday week! I run a "Yellowfork Turkey 10" with my friends in a place called Yellowfork canyon every Thanksgiving so this will be perfect! The run is flexible, you can run a 10k or 10 miles depending on how you feel. That brings me to my gratitude list. I am blessed in so…

I looked at the spreadsheet and it looks like you've got things figured out just fine. The requirements for the miles are any activity beyond your normal routine. Vigorous cleaning could count but walking from your car to the grocery store doesn't. We are happy to have you!

I'm so sorry about your cat @watersm04 We had to do the same with our cat of 18 years a while ago. All of my children grew up with him and we all still miss him. My walking will be done tomorrow. I ran 4 miles the first day and walked 3 the next day. Neither fill the challenge but tomorrow I'm going on a 10 mile run and…

We made it to 5th place last week! Let's see if we can get even higher this week and leave our overall 6th place in the dust! We've got two new teammates and all teams have been taken to 20 players so we've got a chance to have full team participation. Having 3 missing members last week really hurt our numbers but we still…

We've got another new teammate to welcome. @akmomof7, we are excited to have you join us on our race around the world!

Also had finished the jump rope/hopscotch. didn't have any chalk so I had to make up hopscotch with paper [/quote] LOVE the creativity of our team!