Photo Scavenger Hunt

As we travel around central Pennsylvania, armed only with a digital camera, a stroller and a diaper bag, we thought it would be fun to set the bar pretty high and challenge ourselves to a photo scavenger hunt, the results of which, of course, would be made available to our ever-faithful readers.

Just so you know, for the purposes of the scavenger hunt, our vacation will run from today until the 19^th (our vacation otherwise ends on the morning of the 16^th, but we'll be attending our alma mater's homecoming next weekend, which will also provide ample photo-scavenging material). Also, all the photos collected will be from this time period, no pictures collected, say, a year ago...what's the fun in that? Also, all pictures will be of things we've actually seen in person...no Googling "rhinoceros" and then telling you that a picture of our monitor qualifies. Now if we're at an antique shop that has a framed picture of a rhino...that's a different story.

Anyway, enough with the disclaimers, onto the hunt!

1. Mascot
2. Dog wearing doggie clothing
3. "Fried things" sign (i.e. fried Twinkies, fried Snickers, fried Crisco, you get the idea...)
4. Someone eating a giant turkey leg
5. Rainbow
6. Something that puts us in mind of James Herriot
7. Hostess truck
8. Castle
9. Tuba
10. Hobo clown
11. Minor celebrity (i.e. local politician, TV personality, etc.)
12. Shot glass from NYC
13. Street banner (i.e. like this and not like this)
14. One of those plywood signs with the face cut out, for taking funny pictures (pie throwing need not be involved, although it's a plus)
15. Billy the Big Mouth Bass
16. Tree house
17. City plaque
18. Brick oven
19. Silk top hat and cane
20. Gooseberry wine
21. Haiku
22. Mounted wildlife in public establishment
23. Barbershop pole
24. Statue
25. Painting of dogs playing poker
26. Mail Pouch ad on the side of a barn
27. Wildlife (our resident centipedes being excluded)
28. Rusty farm equipment
29. Limousine
30. Cap gun
31. Alligator skin purse and/or shoes
32. Bugaboo stroller (like this)
33. Lucky Strike-branded item
34. Ye Olde Mispelt Shoppe Signe*
35. Caramel apple
36. Pumpkin still attached to the vine
37. Child with a painted face

* Dave Barry has a novel plan for eliminating these from society. He says, "We need to do something about this national tendency to try to make new things look like they are old."

"First off, we should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot."