Hi Everyone,
I was sad about this year’s EEC being the last one, but after I had such an incredibly good time, I feel even MORE depressed!
I felt like the scavenger hunt clues were considerably harder than last year’s, and the volunteers were not giving many hints! I actually liked that challenge; even if it takes you a while, it is more fulfilling to figure out the clues than have the volunteer give you the answer out of pity.
Just the same, I didn’t figure out the answer to the first clue until DAYS after the race! I met a bunch of people after the race and not a single one of them could explain how the answer was 34. At the clue station, after multiple wrong guesses, I just started calling out times with three repeated numbers to the volunteer, and after I said 11:19, he said “You’ve got it!” and handed me the next clue card. I was like “I’ve got what? 11:19?” Thank goodness the word search at the end was all vertical, or it would have taken us FOREVER to find thirty-four.
As for that thirty-four answer, here are the 17 numbers which repeat twice in a 24 hour period to make the thirty-four answers: 1:11, 2:22, 3:33, 4:44, 5:55, 11:10, 11:11, 11:12, 11:13, 11:14, 11:15, 11:16, 11:17, 11:18, 11:19, 10:00, 12:22
I really liked those blue-lit fangs on either side of the race course as we headed through Asia just before Kali River Rapids.
I didn’t buy drinks at the after-party, but it definitely seemed like Disney was serving something with lower octane than last year. There were a lot fewer incapacitated partiers, which was both a good thing and a bad thing (as far as entertainment value).
If anyone hears anything about Disney setting up another night race to replace the EEC, please let me know!