Our Scavenger Hunt Date with Watson Adventures:
My husband with his museum map
We decided to have an original date this Valentine’s Day weekend. We attended, ‘The Naked at the Met Scavenger Hunt’ in NYC on Sat February 13th. Tickets are $40.50 per person, including museum admission and the hunt ran from 5-8PM.
First, let me allay what’s probably on your mind. No, we did not have to hunt naked. All the clues were about naked artwork that was found in the museum.
Watson Adventures is a company that started in New York in 1999 and now there are over 40 different scavenger hunts from which to choose. They have recently started expanding into other cities. For the hunts, you can have teams of 2 up to 6 people competing with each other. Each team is given a list of anywhere from 24 to 30 clues and questions. This scavenger hunt is about deciphering the clues and writing down the answers. You do not have to collect objects. You get two hours to figure out as many clues as you can and for every correct answer you get a certain number of points. Your team can’t split up and it must arrive on time together. You do not have to run around (in fact you lose points for jogging) so you will not feel exhausted after a 2 hour hunt. When it comes to teams, you can bring your own and hunt with as few as two on a team (so if you are on a date and want to be romantic, you can remain alone) or they will help you band together with kindred spirits at the start of the hunt. This can also be a great way to meet people.
Unfortunately I was not feeling so well yesterday so I was glad that my husband and I were just on our own team. I did not want to slow down any competitive spirits. From the start I told my husband that it was just for fun and we were probably not going to win today. But he immediately started studying the entire museum map and formulated an intricate strategy. And we did get into it. The clues were very interesting and the hunt made learning about art in the museum a lot of fun. We did surprising well with our answers for the first half of the hunt but since it was two hours long and I started to feel exhausted and sick half-way, we were thinking of stopping mid-way. We really loved it and we would have continued if I had felt better.
Also right around this same time my husband got a text from his brother Jeff, who is rarely in NYC. We knew that he was spending a Valentine’s Day weekend in the city with his lovely wife Dawn. He is a perpetual kidder as a big brother and he is always teasing my husband, the baby in the family. We had spoken to him earlier and told him that we were going on a scavenger hunt in the museum. So, when his text arrived and said that he was in the same museum looking at swords, I said, ‘Yeah right! Ask him which swords he is looking at!’ I thought he was pulling our leg to get us off course. Just in case, we began our ‘scavenger hunt within a scavenger hunt’ and started looking for my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. Finally we found them in ‘Armor’ and they really did come to surprise us! It was super sweet. So we thanked the Watson Adventures people and explained what happened and then we all went out to dinner together, which was a lot of fun! (You should come to the city more often Jeff and Dawn. It was very fun hanging out with you).
So, in asking my husband whether he thought the scavenger hunt would be a great date for others, he said ‘definitely yes’ and said that he had really been getting into it! We would even do it again because found it too be a great way to learn about something new while having fun and working as a team.
Watson Adventures has lots of amazing scavenger hunts and personally I think that it would make an amazing memorable date. It allows you both to think, laugh, work as a team and discover things together. It is an interesting twist on the ‘museum date’ and I can also imagine having a blast doing a chocolate eating scavenger hunt in SOHO on a date. It is the same cost as getting her dinner but it is longer and more original. She will be impressed!
There are many varieties of hunts but to name a few, there is a SOHO Chocolatey Scavenger Hunt, A Much Around Chinatown Scavenger Hunt, The Sex and the Village Scavenger Hunt (visiting locations from ‘Sex and the City’), The High Line at Sunset Scavenger Hunt, as well as hunts for families and even hunts that take place in Brooklyn. Some of the hunts that do not include museum admission are much cheaper and they only cost $20 a person. Also, if you have a friend or date from out of town, this would be a terrific way to show them the city. Check out their website below for the full description and details.
They even do custom scavenger hunts for businesses, individuals, schools etc. People can do this for bachelorettes and weddings too! It would be great for an important party or anniversary and they can even create the hunt around personal details and places.
We give it two thumbs up as a sexy date. So check out Watson Adventures and if you go try it, let me know what you think. See our slideshow at: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2473-NY-Love-Examiner~y2010m2d14-Our-Scavenger-Hunt-Date-with-Watson-Adventures
My Best in Love,
Paulette
www.mydatingschool.com
Author of ‘Dating from the Inside out: How to Use the Law of Attraction in Matters of the Heart’ published by Atria Books.
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