Mission #2: Project Fermosa

Mission #2: Project Fermosa

Wednesday December 25, 2013
2:30 pm

IMF was kind enough not only to give us advance warning that it would be prudent for us to be showered/dressed/put together for the day, but also to give us advance warning to do so. Secret agents or not, we're still three teenage(ish) girls sharing a bathroom so we took our sweet time getting ready.

Another unknown call. Another voicemail.

This time, our first bit of intel was taped to our mailbox. The mission was to involve the same team as before: Mountaineer, Freelancer, and Phoenix with logistics/transportation by Oracle and communications by Raptor. This mission was to be set with the premise that we are contestants on the 'Amazing Race'. In order to achieve the next clue, we would have to complete some sort of obstacle at each checkpoint. Finding the first clue behind a utility box down the street, we discovered that we were going to go visit some family friends. So off to the S-Family we went (Name withheld for the safety of the families involved with this secret mission).

The S-Family presented us with two different options. The options were very cleverly named but I cannot remember what those names were...but I know we picked option one! As the two options were uncovered, we discovered that this first challenge was an eating challenge. Option two required us to each eat two very long very stale gummy worms. Phoenix and I wolfed them down without a problem. Freelancer...struggled. Phoenix and I were grateful for the option we had chosen because the alternative choice would have left us each chugging an ENORMOUS glass of milk...and the two of us are not big milk-drinkers.

Our next stop was the J-Family. This family informed us that the title of the challenges taking place in their home were Mistletoe-themed. Freelancer, feeling like option one hadn't served us very well the last time, decided we should choose option two. Option one would have required each secret agent to stand at least 10 feet away and shoot her sister in the foot with a Nerf gun (get it? Missile. Toe. Mistletoe. Bahahahahaha). Yet unfortunately...that is not the option Freelancer stuck us with.

Instead, we were told that we each had to kiss every eligible bachelor in the room.

Blushing. Cue lots and lots and lots of blushing.

Now thankfully, there were only two of these eligible bachelors to be found. And they both were gentlemanly. Though I will say, Mr A. J-Family leapt to his feet pretty dang quick after hearing this challenge read aloud ;) I won't reveal his identity but I've known him for a while. A long while. Like...back in the days of Joy School a long while. He and his brother Mr M. J-Family were good sports and were each kissed on the cheek by the three of us.

Let's be real right now *to be read in a very airy high princess-like voice*: at that point, this mission was no longer about the reward. It was reward in and of itself to just have the chance to kiss the cheek of such fine men.

Ahem. Anyyyyyways ;)

Phoenix was still blushing furiously when we got the N-Family. This family required that at least two sisters do a song/dance routine to the song of their choice from the new Disney movie 'Frozen'. I opted out, but Phoenix and Freelancer rocked it with a charming duet of 'Do You Want to Build A Snowman'.

The P-Family was our last stop for this adventure. We had two choices at this stop: Popcorn or Wiseman. Phoenix went with Popcorn (coincidentally, her guilty pleasure of choice) and we were told that we had to sing the beloved LDS Primary classic "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" with full finger movements and everything. The P-Family patriarch reserved the right to make us sing it multiple times if he didn't feel that we were singing loudly and enthusiastically enough. Suffice it to say, we sang that song a total of three times out in the middle of their yard. A woman on a bicycle was even flagged down to stop and listen to our performance. No, we had never seen this woman before. But she had very high praise for our singing capabilities.

All that said and done, we returned home where we had recovered intel leading us to yet another hidden Christmas present.
Phoenix got a new phone. Freelancer got a 'new' camera (the same one that she'd lost at Girl's Camp but was found just before Christmas) and I got a new digital camera to take to Florida with me woot woot!

If you're still reading this and actually give a hoot as to how the whole saga wrapped up, there's another blog post for that! Keep reading! :)