Covid Contests

To keep the family busy and involved during this COVID-19 Pandemic we have had a series of family contests. I think it really helped us adjust to the new normal of staying home.

First contest was to guess how many rolls of toilet paper George and I actually had.  We had some already plus we filled a suitcase with more when we left Dubai.

Actual total of TP rolls that we had -71. YES we are toilet paper hoarders!

        John won this contest with a guess of 66.

Next question involved how many photos we took on our trip to Dubai

        There were 3 categories:

How many total photos did we take during our 10 day trip?

How many photos did George take?

How many were taken on our cell phones?

For the overall winner, George subtracted their guesses for each category from the totals and added the 3 numbers.

      Over all winner was John

      Matt guessed exactly the total number of photos we took which was 2250 - pretty impressive!

      Scott guessed closest to the number Dad took which was 250

      Monica guessed closest to the number on cell phones which was 1518

Our next activity was a Quarantingo game.  Unfortunately only the girls of the family got involved with this one.  Monica completed every activity!

 But Mary earned a special award.  One question was to find the oldest thing in your home.  Mary and Mark have a coin from 1816.  It was given to Mark by his grandfather who got it from his father, who was a plumber.  That is really OLD!

Matt dug out a big bush in our front yard that was right out the front door by the sidewalk.  Our competition was to guess when Dad would notice that it was gone!  It took 4 days before he noticed and Monica won this one too! 

Next one was to poke fun at me a bit!  I had never watched the TV series Gray's Anatomy before and I've been binge watching it.  The question of the week was, "How many episodes Mom watched in a week.  John got this one almost exactly right.  And the number I watched in a week.  22!!!!  I dream about the characters sometimes.

Last question involved our visiting cat.  The neighbor's cat, Shadow, likes to come and visit us.  She wanders in, gets petted by George and sometimes takes a long nap before leaving us.  Somedays she comes over multiple times, other times she will go for days without making an appearance.  The question was, "From Monday morning until Friday when we go to bed, how many time will Shadow come over to visit?"  

The breakdown:

      Monday 5 visits

      Tuesday 5 visits

      Wednesday 3 visits

       Thursday 0 visits

       Friday 1 visit

Monica won this one with her perfect guess of 14

Our last event was one that we all could win.  The goal was to walk/run 50 miles in one month.  And there were even medals!  You can tell how emotional the awards ceremony was for John!

And I think the medals turned out pretty cute! It's a coronavirus, naturally with crowns and toilet paper ribbon and even a hand sanitizer dangle.  

And a good time was had by all!

Prizes will be awarded for each competition whenever I can get out to a store!