By Kayla Hamilton and Elisa Stegman

For seniors who were not out having fun with the Homecoming Court, a new tradition may have just been started. Instead of staying at home during homecoming week or doing things that might get you into trouble, an open invitation went out to any senior interested in winning a little money while having a good time at the Senior Scavenger Hunt ’09.

The event was coordinated by Katelyn Ploessel and Ali Storjohann, two seniors who didn’t want to miss out on any fun while the Court was out teepeeing and destroying each other’s houses. An e-mail went out telling everyone to spread the word about the hunt Wednesday night. Everyone was to bring a dollar and group themselves into numbers of five to six people. Only one car was allowed to drive each group.

Around fifty seniors showed up at about nine, and by nine-thirty everyone was speeding off in different directions, each group wanting one thing: to win the prize money.
The point of the hunt was to get pictures of everything on the list, and the list itself hunt had some funny (and awkward) moments. A couple of ‘must have’ pictures to win on the list was a man with a mullet or wearing cut-off shorts, a picture of a person eighty-five years old or older, trick-or-treating a random house, a video of someone doing the chicken dance in front of a chicken restaurant, and a picture of a moose.

Some people went all over Davenport to complete their list. Some groups thought ahead and went to the one place on the planet that you can get it all: Wal-Mart. As the night went on however it became apparent that Wal-Mart didn’t understand the joys of being a teenager and many groups were kicked out. “At first we were running around because we were in a hurry to win, but then an employee asked us to stop running so we did. By that time we were leaving, a manager came up to us and said that ‘there were no scavenger hunts allowed at Wal-Mart’ and that we needed to ‘leave immediately,’ reports Elisa Stegman.

Groups had until eleven to complete their task; the first group back won the prize money. The winning group was composed of seniors Trent Peterson, Travis Greve, Brad Strazewski. Tyler Bylund, and  Nick Meyer. “It was a lot of fun. They should definitely keep the tradition alive,” said senior Travis Greve.