So… you may or may not know that the hubby and I are pretty big nerds. Don’t worry, though – we’re proud of our nerdiness 😉 Well thanks to our love for Supernatural… we ended up discovering gishwhes last year. Unfortunately, by the time we found out about it – we were too late to sign up. Well this year when my friend Leah mentioned that she wanted to do it – I decided now was the time to sign up.

So you may be wondering… what is gishwhes? Okay – well gishwhes stands for the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen. It is a 7-time Guinness World Record breaking scavenger hunt hosted by Misha Collins that you can compete in from anywhere in the world. It’s basically a week-long scavenger hunt where Hunters from all over the planet a work on completing a list of fun, wild, amazing and kind tasks to create or accomplish. Many of these tasks can be completed at home or you can go out into the world  to complete them too! Of course, there is a grand prize if your team (of 15 people) wins and you get to go to an awesome location with Misha – which is seriously going to be tons of fun. We mainly just wanted to sign up to have a lot of fun with friends and enjoy this experience that so many claim is life changing.

Registration is closed for this years hunt, and the fun starts next week! So we’re excited to see what’s in store on this year’s list. Here’s a peek at some of the things that were on last year’s list:

• VIDEO. FELICIA DAY ITEM. Do a dramatic reading of your grade-school report card.22 POINTS
• IMAGE. Create a beautiful tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy. – Annie K.29 POINTS
• VIDEO. (Video may be up to 45 seconds.) Have an elderly relative take you back to an important location from their childhood and have them recount a memory of that spot. For example, they could take you back to the street corner where they learned to ride a bike and tell you about that day.68 POINTS
• IMAGE. Tour a wastewater/sewage treatment factory dressed in formal attire with an accompanying violinist or flutist.82 POINTS
• IMAGE. Blow us away with your amazing cosplay as a famous inanimate object.58 POINTS
• IMAGE. Write a thank you letter to a teacher or mentor from your past that you never sufficiently thanked. Mail it. You may submit an image of the letter, or if you wish it to remain private, submit an image of you mailing it. But you must mail it or bad karma will be rained down upon your toothbrush.24 POINTS
• VIDEO. Make and wear a “Save The Unicorns” t-shirt and stand in a crowded public place asking people to sign a petition to “Save The Endangered Unicorns.”62 POINTS
• IMAGE. That was so kind of you to volunteer to host a “Going Away Party for a Boardgame.” Invite several friends over to play a gently used boardgame for its “goodbye party.” Then take it to a shelter for families living there. Photoshop two images together, you and your friends playing, and the game being dropped off at a shelter.40 POINTS
• VIDEO or IMAGE. Someone outside your immediate family sacrificed something so that you could be where you are today.  Find that person and give a heartfelt thank you by creating something for them or doing something for them. Caption the video with what they did for you.21 POINTS

Well that’s just a tiny peek at what we have in store next week. We’re really incredibly excited to have some fun, get creative, and spread some love! I’ll be sure to let you know what we get to do once the hunt is complete. Until then – have a fantastic weekend!