The Mercury News announced the winners of their Scavenger Hunt photo contest and we were not winners. We lost on some bad luck and a tighter than expected judging criteria. However, Riley’s photo with Church Bells did make it into the list of honorable mentions in their bonus slideshow (photo #14).
Here are our entries…
1. Covered bridge
Calgary AB
2. Church with visible bell
Edmonton AB
3. Sign that is intentionally or unintentionally funny
Jackpot NV
4. Black bear (not from the wild)
Fernley NV
5. Lemonade stand
Yellowstone National Park (on July 4th!)
6. Water tower with writing on it
Drumheller AB
7. Festival celebrating food, vegetable or fruit
Potato Expo Blackfoot ID
8. House that doesn’t have four sides
Bozeman MT
9. Mime
Fail!
10. Someone feeding pigeons
Great Falls MT (where they have very big pigeons)
11. Ice cream truck
Drumheller Royal Terrell Museum
12. Motel named for two people (i.e. Norma Dan Motel, Tenn.)
Fail!
13. Obscure historical marker
Emigrant Gulch, highway 89 Montana. It doesn’t get more obscure than this.
14. Parked car with more than 10 bumper stickers? (Must be parked!)
Yellowstone National Park (believe it or not this family has six kids)
15. Building painted purple
Car Wash in Great Falls
Calgary store
16. Blank billboard
I80 Nevada
17. Closed store with “We’ve moved” sign
Calgary McLoud Trail
18. Ferris wheel
Galaxyland Amusement Park in the West Edmonton Mall
19. Rainbow
General Paint store Calgary
West Edmonton Mall
Great Falls umbrella
20. Something unusual not on the list
West Yellowstone MT, diner/bus
Traveling overseas? (You can sub out these for any three above; substitutions must be from a location outside of the United States or U.S. territories.)
1. Sign that includes foreign words and name of U.S. state
Chinese Cultural Center in Calgary (mentions Hawaii)
2. Windmill
Alberta, Highway 2
3. Outdoor market selling food indigenous to that area
Calgary donuts
