I’ve just returned from my work’s christmas party. What an adventurous but successful afternoon!
The first part of this afternoon was spent on a treasure hunt around brisbane. We were all split into teams and given clues to destinations where we would find more clues etc eventually leading us to our dinner destination. We started at 3:00pm and got to the final destination at 7:45pm. Our journey led through brisbane, up to spring hill then over to southbank, back to riverside and then ended up at Royal on the Park which is near the botanical gardens.
Besides following the clues, there were extra points for taking photos of various clues and also collecting items such as hotel matchbooks.
After spending the afternoon finding all the items, taking all the photos and following all the clues. Although we were the last team to arrive at the destination (it was not a race), we were the winners!!!!!
It was a very long journey, but one thing that kept us going was that we had to beat the team that was mostly comprised of people from england, and there was no way they were allowed to beat us!
There were many times that it would have been easy to throw in the towel and retire early (like a couple of teams did). I’m really proud of my team pulling together, especially when we had to cross victoria bridge after just walking to spring hill and back.
After doing the geeky thing and measuring our journey in google maps, we travelled 9km walking about 7.5 of those and 1.5 being the city cat journey.
yes our end point was about 2 blocks away from our start point.
My team members in front of the “angel on queen”
We passed team 2 on the way to the “big ben of brisbane”
My team members riding the mob bus
Dead team leader 
The bronze train
One of the bonus photos was to get a photo with a policeman handcuffing a team member. The police were really friendly but unfortunately they are not allowed to for legal reasons. Our team thought out of the box and did score a photo but it is not going up here
Bec was finally able to get off her conference call and join the team. We plowed through the clues and walked the way to the mill in spring hill (including the 85 steps!)
We then walked back to the end of the mall and to the new brisbane city council building. We then rested for a little while at the library before continuing on across victoria bridge.
Go team! Photo at the serentity temple at southbank.
We then journeyed to pick up some sand at southbank then to the city cat for a trip back to riverside.
We reached eagle street at 7:15pm to collect our final clue, which involved walking back to the bottom of albert st.