Road Rally

Who Will Find the Cedar Bleater?

By Marcus Igo

On May 19^th, Cedar hosted its 2^nd annual Road Rally.  Object of the game?  Find a trail of clues throughout Hudsonville and be the first to locate the coveted “Cedar Bleater” – a cute stuffed lamb.  Afterwards, we enjoyed an ice cream social.  A good time was had by all. 

Pastor Steve interviewed Marcus Igo (age 7) about his experience at the road rally.  Here is what Marcus had to sayHh. 

It was fun and we were the ones who won the Cedar Bleater!  We also got candy at the end.  The night was long but I found the bag of clues for my team when we were at the eye doctor’s office. 

The night began when we walked in the door of the school and went into the gymnasium.  I played with Natassja until the Rally began.  It was nice because she was on my team!  Our clue bags were “white” because that was our team color.  When we walked out the door, we got into our van and raced to the Hudsonville Ice Cream shop.  Mrs. DeWent was the only one allowed out of the van at that stop because it was very busy.  Then, we rushed to Dykstra’s Photography to the woods behind it.  At that stop, we could all get out of the van.  I saw a wagon and a nature trail.  It was neat!  And the wagon was where the clue bag was found.  Mrs. DeWent found it, again.  It took a long time to find.  Then we went to Unity High School.  Next, we went to Hudsonville Eye Care.  I hopped out of the van and just kept looking behind bushes.  Then I came to the bush where it was and looked behind it and grabbed it.  I said, “I got it!” and they all came.  Mrs. DeWent took it and we hopped into the van. 

When we finally came back to the school.  We rushed out of the van into the school because we were going to find the Cedar bleater and we wanted to get a lot of points.  If we got the Cedar bleater before 7:50 PM, we would get extra points.  Then we looked all around the place and Mrs. DeWent found it again! 

Then the people started coming and my dad bragged, “We got the Cedar bleater, first.”  And then we had candy and ice cream as a group. 

It was fun.  I was glad that we won!  Natassja and I played on the playground for a little bit and then she had to go home.  And I did, too!  And when I got home, I got ready for bed.  It was a good night sleep!