A Wanderlust At Heart: About Last Night

Abu Dhabi is a city of entertaining activities and fun loving people. This year I made the promise to myself to get out and see more of it and its people. On any given day there are tons of things to do and see and not too much standing in the way of doing them. I guess the biggest thing that you could say could possibly stand in my way is the fact that I'm an introvert and being in unfamiliar situations with people and places that I don't know is extremely uncomfortable for me, but allowing that to keep me from really experiencing life is just plain silly. YOLO, as they say. What's the worst that can happen, right?

So, I signed myself (and my friend Lisa, gotta have at least one familiar person when I'm trying new things) up for an adult scavenger hunt. Neither of us knew what to expect but since there were over 100 people signed up to go, we figured that at the very least we could meet some cool people who also knew not what to expect. The night turned out to be so much fun! I got to experience some of Abu Dhabi's night life, so if you're planning to visit I'll have a few new fun places for us to go, and also did some things I definitely would not have done otherwise.

For the scavenger hunt we met up at a bar and were split into teams of 6 - 7 people and given a list of 30 things to do in three hours. There were things like kissing a stranger, taking team a selfie in a bus, and finding a taxi driver named Mohamed on the list and each thing was worth 10, 20, or 30 points. We didn't have to do everything on the list but we did have to capture what we did do on a camera or phone to turn in to the judges later. The team with the most points would win the pot of 40 aed (about $10) that each person paid in to participate. I really wanted to win that prize!

So off we went to accomplish these tasks without getting into too much trouble. Things didn't start so well, an old drunk man yelled at Lisa for climbing this tree, but things got better from there.