What Rainey and Zoe have been up to

the chinese government blocks blogs and Zainey have been much to busy securing their 2nd place standing to get online since leaving China but here is what they have been up to (the below are a few emails Zoe managed to get out). You can also keep up with what they have been doing, where they are and who's winning the competition at the actual Great Escape website http://globalscavengerhunt.com/blog/. They seem like they are having a great time all while supporting some great charities (i'm so jealous).
- April

From Zoe 4/12/08
We got to San Francisco yesterday from Las Vegas and were immediately put into doing a 3 hour scavenger hunt around San Franscisco. It was SOOO awesome. There were all sorts of riddles, puzzles, clues etc. that we had to figure out in order to do various challenges. It took us to all parts of the city that you would never see normally. Just one example of a challenge: "Where George and Bess met, a man walks with the grain". We figured out it was referring to George WASHINGTON and Bess ROSS - and at the corner of Washington and Ross we found a series of murals - in one of them was a man carrying a bag of rice - so we had to take our photo in front of that part of the mural. After the scavenger hunt, we all had to show up at dinner at 7 PM. Right as they served the main course, the leader of the competition stood up and said - you have 3 hours to be at the airport - we leave for China tonight. So we got to the airport - and found out that we were flying to Hong Kong. Fifteen hours later we just landed in Hong Kong and as we came off the plane, they handed us new boarding passes for Beijing - so we are going straight on to Beinjing. I will try and blog more later... lots to tell.. this is GREAT.

From Zoe 4/14/08
Still in Beijing. We cannot use our blog site here as all blogs and most of the internet is blocked or censored by the chinese government. I am SOOO tired - we have been going basically 24 hours per day doing challenges. we got up at 5:30 AM today to get started again as we end the Beijing challenges tonight at 10 PM - which is the first time that we will know what points each team has. I will try and upload photos when we leave China. We saw the Great Wall yesterday - amazing. This has been the best trip so far - so fun, SOOOOOO hard, so amazing. We leave tomorrow morning for another country but we have no idea where yet.