BSB 07/09/1985 Saturday
Renata woke me up at 8 for us to go to a gincana (scavenger hunt) on Barracão 4. Ana came too. We ended up in her brother’s team “Cor & Calor” (colour and heat). The 204 was packed, there were 20 teams. There were parties on the Eixão to celebrate independence day. The gincana started at 10:30. The first challenge was to fit 16 people inside a VW (fusca). We fitted 29 people in! The second challenge was to find an ex-priest married to an ex-nun. We got in a car with Renata’s brother. No one could find such couple, there were 6 cars in our team. The third challenge was to make the biggest kite and then fly it. We made a medium one and it flew. There was a 5 meter kite but they couldn’t fly it. This task was to be done in 30 mins. And each challenge had a 1 hour break in between, and it was 12:30 already. They ended up cancelling the 3rd and the 4th was to make the biggest doll. Renata and I went to her house and made one that was 150cm tall. We got there with 20 minutes to spare. Then other people in our team brought a 3 meter doll! There was a 5 meter doll, but they weren’t really dolls. People just put matresses together, stuck a head on it, some shoes and arms. Next challenge was to bring a deputy or senator currently in power and they had to tell a joke. It was already 15:00 so I went home alone. I washed my hair and followed the gincana on Manchete radio.
The next challenge was to decipher a charade, then next find a dwarf that was older than 30. Then look for a sticker in a commercial area in the South Lake. There were 9 challenges in total. At 20:30 me, Ana and her mum went back to 204, as it was the last challenge. Our team had given up at around 19:30. The last challenge was a fashion show by the girls in each team. By 21:30 the winner had not been declared so we came home.