Amazing Race Minneapolis?

The FP Gal and and I were talking about Amazing Race on Sunday, specifically what it must be like to scout the different cities and figure out what tasks you wanted the people to do. As a thought experiment we decided to think about what we would recommend if Minneapolis was a featured city. Here were different ideas we came up with:
  • Find the Mary Tyler Moore statue.
  • Inline skate around one of the lakes.
  • Eat some lutefisk (to show off regional heritage).
  • Detour: find certain selected shops in either the Skyway or at the MOA (Tubes or Rubes?).
  • Pitstop at the Spoonbridge.
And this would be a pretty dull episode. Would it be better in the winter?
  • Scrap the windshields of ten cars.
  • Create and stack ice bricks to help build the Winter Carnival castle.
  • Correctly put on the twenty-two items needed to go cross country skiing (to show off regional heritage).
  • Detour: shovel a block long section of sidewalk or put up Christmas lights in freezing rain (Scrape or Pray?).
  • Pitstop at the auto impound lot.
More interesting, I guess. Can anyone else do better?

Comments

Alfred T. Mahan said…
*AHEM!*

The Winter Carnival is in SAINT PAUL, sir!

*sniffs derisively*
9:55 PM
MamaD4 said…
Oh yes, a trip to the impound lot would be great. You could make the contestants have to earn the money to get the car out somehow. The real fun would be dealing with the surly, overworked staff at the impound lot.

I did one trip to the one in St. Paul and it was a fantastic time!! Nothing beats waking up in the morning and finding your car gone...! :)
12:58 AM
Peder said…
Andrew, shouldn't suburbs of Minneapolis count as the same thing?
6:43 AM
Pat said…
OMG--how funny and clever. I thought all of them were great. You and Sarah's creativity is something to behold.
8:20 AM
carrster said…
I definitely think that the winter one sounds more interesting.
8:28 AM
Alfred T. Mahan said…
I'm sorry, Peder, you'll have to speak up; I can't hear you from the state capital. :P

However, feel free to have your show take place during that summertime pale imitation of my city's Winter Carnival; that Aqua-thingy.
11:57 AM
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