Teenager trusts parents to pull of the scavenger hunt!

Dear Nikki:

Your ebook is a treasure in its own. We are going to have the scavenger hunt-birthday party on June 15, it's for a 16-year old girl whom I had to convince that the clues were not going to be 'dumb' - I read a couple from various age groups and she smiled!!!!! That's a heck of an accomplishment, so now she trusts her parents that we actually could pull this off. (she of course does not remember all the previous successful parties that we threw for her and her sisters while they were growing up, we don't get credit for those).

We live in Massachusetts, a little town (18,000 residents) west of Boston called Westborough. It used to be a sleepy little town, we had 12 dairy farms when we moved here in 1980, and now it's a affluent suburb.

Because the party will be held on the last day of school, there's a lot of activities going on in town so we just hope that this hunt will be one of the most attended one. I had not thought about a theme, beyond 'last day of school'.... With a 16-year old, and a girl on top, who quite be quite finicky, we try to accommodate her wishes while being responsible. For instance, she wanted the scavenger hunt at night.... well, that did not work for us, we were not going to be responsible for a group of teenager roaming about town at dark. So we had to compromise and I think we came up with a good plan. Her father's still on the fence, because we'll have to have adult drivers lined, but it's a small inconvenience to pay for the security of the kids and the pleasure that they'll all derive from the party.

I read through the book and then printed out the pages that I needed - I'll pull from various age groups because some of the clues are a riot - 4 ice cubes? and bring them back unmelted? I just have to throw that one in.

So I have high expectations that the kids will be very excited and happy with the event. The next challenge that we have not quite yet overcome is to agree on the food to serve. One challenge at a time..

Thank you for your wonderful material.

Brigitte Casemyr, Massachusetts USA

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