***EDIT***
Due to an extension we were able to compete, and win, the meatcard challenge!
Read about it by clicking here!
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Thanks to a busy weekend, a rainy saturday, and Father's Day on Sunday, we never got a chance to enter the meat cards challenge. We did spent some time Friday night sitting around the fire coming up with some great ideas too. Our focus was on picture #3, Cornered:
The rules clearly stated:
If there is a dinosaur in the painting, there had better be something awesomely dinosaur-y in your picture. Not a stuffed animal, or your cat. Unless your cat is six feet tall and has a wicked gleam in its eye. We will be judging on creativity, ingenuity, and attitude.
Considering this is 2009 and the Dinosaurs have been extinct for, well I dunno, a few zillion years, getting a real, living, breathing dinosaur was not possible.
However, the other day when I was driving down Erie Blvd, I noticed a giant inflatable gorilla outside the local used car lot.
{image credit nelsonguirado.com}
Of course getting photos with it, IN A BIKINI, while holding an axe and a knife might prove difficult without asking management for permission first. Sure it was do-able, but in all honesty, it was at the bottom of the list. I really didn't WANT to have to explain the meat cards challenge.... although, we thought bringing along the video camera to document the embarrassing event WOULD make for great blogging material.
Our next idea was to drag out our 6 foot tall Jason Voorhees.
He's no dinosaur but he IS scary as hell. I image he would suffice, he DOES happen to have a wicked gleam in his eye. That was the most viable option and probably the one we would have gone with, if Saturday hadn't turned out to be a complete bust.
Our last idea was to dress someone up like a dinosaur We all had a good laugh over what that might involve. Everything from colored sheets to cut out cardboard jaws that we could tape to someone's arms with a big cardboard eyeball hat. It would take a little creativity, but we were quite sure if the Jason idea came out WAY TOO CORNY that this option would totally work.
So we had 3 great ideas and we were confident that we could EASILY win this challenge.
But then Saturday morning it poured, and it poured, and it poured. And it never stopped. Not only that but last minute we planned a huge BBQ with our neighbors for all the Dads. The meat card challenge slipped away from us before we knew it. The deadline is 9am today and we have NOTHING other and than a few great IDEAS. But ideas are not going to win me a slab of meat with my information lasered into it.
I'm a little bummed because we really wanted to compete. I wasn't sure how many entries they had (if any) and I was hesitant to write about our great dino ideas, but even if they extend the challenge, we probably can't compete this week. We are leaving for Chicago one week from today and this week is going to be equally crazy. I'm not sure if we could find the time to enter.
Meat cards, we thought of you fondly this weekend. We had some FABULOUS ideas and if there's anything to be said about "It's the THOUGHT that counts" we'd still LOVE to be an alpha tester. It would be so cool to have JenniferSuarez.com lasered into some meat. But if not I guess I'll just buy a pack of beef jerky and a sharpie and we'll call it a day.
GOOOO MEAT!
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