{"id":1307,"date":"2018-07-29T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapsmemoriesandmotherhood.com\/home\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2019-05-05T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T17:52:17","slug":"create-your-own-amazing-race-to-add-fun-and-mystery-to-any-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapsmemoriesandmotherhood.com\/home\/travel-with-kids\/create-your-own-amazing-race-to-add-fun-and-mystery-to-any-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Create your own Amazing Race to add fun and mystery to any trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROUTE INFORMATION: Welcome to The Amazing Race. Go to the Fort Wayne Children\u2019s Zoo by car. Once you get there and find their sign, and you will receive your next clue.<\/em><\/p>\n

My 8-year old son Alex has recently become obsessed with The Amazing Race TV Show<\/a>. He is my geography whiz \u2013 knows all the countries and their flags and is working on his knowledge of capitals. He reads geography books, plays geography games and knows a ton of world landmarks. A few weeks ago, we were looking for an alternative to watching Despicable Me 3 for the 10th<\/sup> time, so we turned on the first season of The Amazing Race (TAR). Little did we know what we were getting in to.<\/p>\n

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Clue 3 for Amazing Race<\/p><\/div>\n

Truth be told, my husband Nick and I are AVID TAR fans. Once upon a time, we even sent in an audition tape to try out \u2013 how we were not chosen is still a mystery! When we lived in China we were able to watch TAR-US and TAR-Asia  – those were good times.<\/p>\n

Alex even started reading a book, My Ox is Broken<\/em><\/a>, written by a former competitor and taking notes in it as he watched the early seasons.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I decided to have some fun with Alex during a \u201croam close to home\u201d trip this past weekend. We had to pick up my older son, Nate, from summer camp in Northern Indiana (2.5 hours away) early Saturday<\/span> morning. I\u2019ve always wanted to go to both the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo<\/a> and Nappanee, IN<\/a> (Famous for Amish Acres<\/a> and the surrounding Amish community), which were not far from his camp site. So, we (me, my dad and Alex) left early Friday<\/span> to hit both attractions, spent the night in Warsaw and then picked up Nate.<\/p>\n

To surprise Alex, I made up an Amazing Race game for us based on our day\u2019s itinerary. In fact, I created these clues in about five minutes:<\/p>\n

DETOUR:<\/strong> At the Fort Wayne Zoo, you must look for these four animals:<\/em><\/p>\n