Some of you may remember this from last Easter, when we played Tony Hawks Treasure Hunt on Twitter. This year we were excited to follow it again! It is such a blast to be a part of this world wide "Easter egg hunt".
It all started Sat morning after Brody left for his ride. I woke up, remembered the hunt and checked Twitter first thing. At the top of my feed (just 10mins old) was the tweet you see below for Costa Mesa. I was determined to win another one for Brody, so I leapt out of bed, threw on my jeans and a sweatshirt and raced out the door.
It was a video clue from the skater Neal Hendrix.
It said, "Next to the Volcom Skate park, look for the swimming Zebra"
I raced over there {abiding by all road laws of course ; ) }, and made it to the Skate Park (over by the OC Fairgrounds). I searched the Skate park for a min, and then listened to the clue again, "NEXT to the Volcom skate park, look for the SWIMMING Zebra", that's when it hit me. of course! Tewinkle park!! At this time there were others searching the park and even leaving because they figured someone had already found it. That's when I slowly walked across the street to the park, saw the lake, the floating Zebra with the prize and Neal sitting there at waters edge, holding onto the floating Zebra that held the prize. When I got close, and made verbal contact with him, he pushed the Zebra into the lake. I had to laugh! This guy was so set on the prize winner jumping into what has to be the grossest lake ever to get this prize.
I kinda laughed out loud at this point, and knew I wasn't about to jump in for it. Then this boy who looked about 12, followed by his little brothers and Dad came up....this boy was pumped and ready to jump in! He did, and got the prize all for himself! It was really fun to watch, and they were SO happy! : )
After he jumped in the lake after it
Coming out of the lake
Opening the box
Photo of the happy group with Neal.
Official Tweet that Costa Mesa,CA had been found...
At this point I called Brody and told him the story of what happened. : ) While we were talking, and I was leaving the park....the Tweet below came in, and I was off on another hunt!
This time to the fun zone across from Balboa Island!
(The little yellow arrow is pointing to the prize.)
We saw this RIGHT when it was tweeted, and I was just coming from the Fairgrounds, I was so close. So I hopped on the freeway, parked in a lot right next to this and ran over....by the time I got there.....
It looked like this....another prize gone!
The guy who won it, had just dropped his wife off to see a friends baby at Hoag, so he was just a bit ahead of me. The hunt was pretty fun, the close calls, hearing and seeing to stories of the people who won. It's a fun thing to be a part of.
Below is the Tweet that Newport was found.
At this point, it was almost 11am. So I headed home to shower and get ready to grab some lunch before more clues came in. : )
While I was getting ready we saw this clue, for Gilbert AZ, where Brody's parents live. The park happened to be right by their house, so they went to check it out. They really got into the spirit of things, and said it felt like the Amazing race (and it really does). They were there with several others searching for it, and had just missed it! They even told us that if anything else came up in the area to let them know and they would go check it out. Such good sports! : )
I had this gut feeling that there would be a clue in South County, near or around the Lake Forest area. The year before there had been a prize there, and up until this point, there hadn't been a clue in that area yet. My plan was to have lunch at Cafe Rio, take our time, and wait for the clue to come in. To our amazement, that is JUST how it happened!
As we were leaving the Cafe Rio parking lot, we saw the Tweet below, and we were on the prowl!
We were about 20-25 mins away from the location according to our GPS, but we had to give it a go! The prize was hiding in the residential area way up in the hills of Laguna. Up this one lane road that wound up and up and around one way and then another. About half way into this drive up the hill, with no one behind us or coming down from the hill, we started to feel like we had it!
We found the spot, jumped out, searched around....
(The arrow is pointing at the prize. We didn't notice till later that it was shown in the photo) : )
And FOUND IT!!
It was pretty exciting to find it...and always more fun to find it with Brody!
The hunt and chase is really most of the fun, but there were some fun things inside. : )
Here is the Tweet I had to send in with the photo, so they knew it was found.
...and then it was re-tweeted so others knew it was found! : )
Here's a little peak into the box. That hat is a sample hat, from The Eddie in HI.
Among other things we liked was this Otter Box for Brody's iPad! : )
It's a case that super protects it!
After we found the box a clue came in for a After Party and Skate Demo. With more free stuff and food. We thought it would be a fun way to end our day of hunting and plus, we were too curious to not check out what was going on in San Diego.
And hey, we might even get to meet Tony himself we thought....
For more stories from finders, photos and video's from the day, go
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Coming up next.....the After Party....
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