Scavenger Hunt

I've always thought (and been told) that my twin brother and I would be great at The Amazing Race, the reality show on CBS where they race across the world.  The only reason that we would never win the $1 million prize is that I have terrible luck.  My taxi would blow out a tire 400 miles away from help in sub-Saharan Africa.  I told Candace and Michele, my partners in crime for this, that if they worked with me, we would no doubt win this scavenger hunt. As it turned out, my luck caught up with us in the end. Needless to say, I'm angry about it, but I guarantee you that no other group had more fun and more success finding all of the clues and navigating the city.  If it wasn't for the snitch...........

Our plan was to find everything and complete the snitch task. Here is all of the items on the list:

Van Gogh's The Sunflower (the real thing was not displayed because of a strike going on, but this was at the National Gallery gift shop)

 Rothko's Seagram Murals

 Abbey Road

Black Velvet cocktail at The Victoria pub and peaking to a former Cambridge cricket player about cricket (I could not upload the video because of technical difficulties, but see Candace and Michele's blogs.)

 Outside London's oldest bookshop (my vote is a lower picture)

Ben Franklin's plaque (it isn't blue, but the official blue plaque website confirmed this is his plaque)

Sherlock Holmes hat

 Mango Lassi

EVERY EEL PLACE WE WENT TO WAS OUT OF EEL AND THIS WAS THE FINAL SHOP AND I WAS SO MAD AFTER SEARCHING ALL THIS TIME SO THIS WAS THE RESULT.  THIS IS THE ONLY REASON WE LOST. (Bad grammar used for effective rant, but I was fully expecting to choke down the entire thing and win by completing every task and eating the eel.  Much like the Amazing Race possibility, I lost because of poor luck.)

 Ramses Bust

 Andromeda and Perseus

 My vote for the best novel of the past 200 years (yes i submitted it)

 Speakers Corner

 Oil painting of William Shakespeare

 Resting place of James Burbage

I am satisfied with the results of this scavenger hunt because I did everything that I could do to win.  I've checked myself a couple of times, but if I left off a picture of one of the tasks, it is not because I didn't go find every single thing.  Bad luck haunts me again.  I guess it just wasn't meant to be.