nomnomnom: the amazing food race in nyc!

before i begin, i'd like to give a shoutout to alison and pat for arranging this event and putting everything together!  it was a huge success and so much fun!  so, thank you again, you two!

anyway, you might be wondering, "what is this amazing food race?"  alison had put this event together for pat's (her boyfriend) birthday and it involved us running around new york city and eating all day!  although i feel obese (and i still do even though two days have passed), my taste buds and tummy were satisfied (very satisfied). 

there were seven teams, all with different colored shirts (stan and i were TEAM BLUE!).  we were given a set of rules and a list of twelve restaurants/pitstops with challenges for each location, in which we had to choose five (not to mention doing three non-food challenges as well).  we were also given maps to help us navigate the city (it really wasn't that hard, i guess, because we cabbed to our pitstops - lol).  

our food challenges:

1) dirty bird to-go (eat three pieces of chicken fingers)

2) gray's papaya (each team eats two hotdogs and drinks a 14 oz. drink)

3) pomme frites (eat a large order of fries - it was huge!)

4) chickalicious (eat a dessert, such as ice cream or shaved ice)

5) artichoke (each player eats a slice of pizza)

there were other restaurants that i would have preferred to go to, but oh well.  there is always next time.  

our non-food challenges:

1) taking a picture with the gay street sign

2) taking a picture with the smallest house in nyc (75 1/2 bedford st)

3) taking a picture with the alamo aka astor place cube

the first team to finish all the challenges and get to the end point won! it was a tie (or something like that - it was confusing) between three teams.  the winning teams got "new york city" t-shirts (thanks alison and pat!).

stan and i had formed an alliance with TEAM BROWN after seeing them at our first pit stop.  it was a good thing we did because we had loads of fun taking shots in between every restaurant (i bet all the other teams thought we were crazy).  stan had forgot the video camera so i wasn't able to document any of the fun in video, but i do have some photos to share!

i'm thinking we should do a DC food race next!  now, that's a plan!!