The Plan

1. Buy $500 car.... Check
2. Enter BABE Rally (www.streetsafari.com)... Check
3. Decide to do event for Methodist Temple Children's Center's toddler Playground (You can make a pledge at www.daewoopteedoo.org) ... Check
4. Start promoting the event/gathering pledges... Check
5. Start introducing car and transportation to the students and make car run... Check
6. Have a send off June 3 at 3:00 at the school... Check
7. Participate in the BABE Rally and Blog/Facebook our Journey... Check
8. Announce Silent Auction winner of the car (Pending its return) June 13th 5:00 central...Check

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Monday, June 6, 2011

Day 1- four out of five burros ain't bad

The challenge: create the best poker hand that you can using signs and symbols that you find along the road.


First stop Queens!  As soon as I read that the challenge was poker Chris whipped the car from the left lane to head across Staten Island right toward Queens.  It didn't take long to get our first pictures.  Of course you need to go through the Bronx to get there, so there's number burro number 2.  I looked up that there was a Queen BLVD with a heart hospital near it, so that's the direction that we headed.  (We never did find the hospital, so it's a good thing that we didn't need it.) We did find a boxing club and a variety of shapes that can be construed as card symbols.  Here are some of our most clever.

Queen of Diamonds



Queen of diamonds (If you stretch it.)

Queen of Clubs

Queen of Clubs

Ummm... we're in Manhattan...


3 of Spades

A plane taking off.

A cool bridge we saw

Pair of Kings (Richard and Arthur)
Queen of Hearts

Jack of Diamonds


Seriously! Save some money and then add another lane to the road!

So it was right about here that we hung up the phone with the Honey Wagon, and the check engine light came on.  We knew Gene was tricky, but really a cell phone activated check engine light.  That's taking competition to the extreme.  


This is the first competitor that we came across.  They had a faulty fuel pressure sensor.  We waited until the tow truck was in sight and then we continued on our way.  



East coast Hollywood

More competitors.  They have a broken CV boot, so we helped them limp it home. 
When we got in we turned in our poker hand and then enjoyed some parking lot games.  Tonight's game was a speed windshield washing tournament.  


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