Scavenger Hunt in Seattle

Joe woke up yesterday realizing we didn't have a daycare kid before or after school and decided to exercise our homeschool privileges. We whipped out the laptop to find something fun and a discount for it. I perused the Entertainment book and Googled online discounts for local attractions. We thought about taking the Underground Seattle Tour, which neither Joe or I have ever gone on in our 30+ years in this area. After reading reviews (not glowing) and not finding a discount I just couldn't bring myself to spend $50+ on an adventure that looked like it would bust. We thought about buying a City Pass (multiple attractions, one price over a week) but we weren't really ready to commit the week to being a tourist in our city. So after about an hour of thinking and researching we decided to take the easy way out and go to the Pike Place Market.

We thought we had taken the kids to the Market before but it turns out none of them remember any of it so if we did, it was a looooong time ago. Well I didn't want the trip to be a bust either so I thought it might be fun to do a scavenger hunt in the market with the camera. I Googled scavenger hunts at the Pike Place Market only to find several companies that I could pay over $1000 to have a corporate team building experience scavenger hunt (made the Underground Tour seem like a pittance). So I decided to come up with my own but used the one sample clue I found online. I think it was a sucess as it kept us moving and experiencing different things around the market. We didn't come anywhere near seeing all that the market has to offer so I can see doing a new one next time. Plus it got the kids involved in taking pictures of our trip.

Here is our list, feel free to do your own in a different location, I think you can see how simple it is.
Hafner Family Scavenger Hunt at the Pike Place Market 3/29/10
find coffee (this was and afterthought, although it should have been at the top of the list, I encourage you to put it as #1!)
1. Take a picture in front of the gum wall in Post Alley
2. Eat a freshly made donut @ The Daily Dozen
3. Take a picture in front of the Pike Place Market Clock
4. See the Giant Shoe Museum
5. Get your picture taken sitting on the pig
6. What the pig’s name and function?
7. take a picture of a fruit or vegetable you have never tasted
8. What is the best price for 1 dozen tulips?
9. Take a picture of a “flying fish”
10. Taste something you’ve never tasted before
11. Find the Pike Place Bakery
12. In store filled with odd antiques, what is the gypsy’s first prediction for you?
13. And nearby, how old is the ugly creature that might stalk Little Red Diving Hood?
14. find a Pez Dispenser, take a photo
15. find Elvis
16. find something funny
17. find something magical
18. find a fish tank
19. eat some cheese
20. have fun, and take a picture of it!
See if you can match the pictures to the numbers!