Scavenger Hunt Raises Over 65,000 Pesos for Pasitos de Luz Tim Longpre - PVRPV
July 23, 2012

(video by PromoVisionPV)

On Saturday, teams of four set out from Nacho Daddy to participate in our first Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser benefiting Pasitos de Luz, our local non-profit organization that supports low income families with free daycare for their disabled children. Pasitos offers these children a caring and loving environment, with nutritional food, medical services, orthopedic equipment, and occupational and speech therapy.

The TOP 10 place teams in alphabetical order were:

Awesome 4Sum
Bendito entre las Mujeres
Buzos Basureros
Las Sirenas
No Way Jose! 3 Babes and a Man
PV Sea Dive
SECTAC
Tequila Mockingbirds
The Dog House
Twisted Palm/Los Muertos Brewing

Great job everyone!

The winning team was Twistedpalms PV and Los Muertos Brewing, who won 5,000 pesos and donated back 1,000 pesos. Thanks Guys.

2nd team that won was Buzos Basureros and they donated back the 3,000 pesos. Thanks Guys.

3rd place was Awesome4Sum and they donated back the 1,500 pesos. Thanks Guys.

It was an amazing day and 65,270.50 pesos were raised for Pasitos de Luz.

From TripAdvisor, "Tim Longpre from PVRPV.com, Charlotte and Carol from Xocodiva and Lix Ice Cream, and Lori Lorenzen from Rio Amapas Luxury Residences came up with this scavenger hunt that had teams of four people competing to find the most objects.

Over 140 people were running around the south side of Puerto Vallarta, on a mission to collect the most items on the list. Competition was fierce but friendly as teams had to find items (and carry with them) a Danielle Steele book, a Mexican Flag, a U.S. flag and a flag from Canada, they had to take a photo of them bobbing for apples at Que?Pasa, have one of their names written on a grain of rice to everyone's favorite; find and bring with them a live cockroach! (here is where you were able to some of Vallarta's most beautiful people dumpster diving!)

Each team paid a 500 peso entrance fee which went directly to Pasitos de Luz. Part of the items to collect for the hunt was another 500 pesos which had the teams asking for donations from local businesses, tourists, friends and anyone they came across. This money was also tallied and donated to Pasitos de Luz.

Everyone had four hours to collect the items on the list on one of the hottest days we have had so far this year... and at 5:00 pm sharp, everyone had to be back at Nacho Daddy's where the REAL party began!

Nacho Daddy's was packed with the teams, volunteers, supporters, visitors and the curious. This was the place to be as now people could get their drink on and listen to live music and laugh about the experience! As well, TONS of local businesses donated GREAT prizes for the raffles which also helped to raise money for Pasitos de Luz. Some of the prizes were gift certificates from No Way Jose, Casa Isabel (they donated many free nights), Cassandra Shaw Jewelry, Rhythms of the Night, Villa Azalea, St, Regis Hotel, Provecho Dining Cards and many others. (Sorry if I missed anyone!)

There was also a 50/50 cash raffle where 50% went to charity and the other 50% went to the winner (over 1500 Pesos!)

The best part was announcing the winners and seeing who collected the most items... and the winners generously donated back their winnings to Pasitos de Luz!

One other fun prize was Bruce from Teatro Limon auctioned off a private dinner party/cooking class for the highest bidder and up to 39 friends! This alone raised another 16,00 Pesos for Pasitos de Luz - and Bruce is donating the wine, food, staff and location for the party!

I am hoping that we are able to do another FUN event in the future- as this was truly an incredible experience for everyone involved and I am proud to live in a place where people donate so much time and effort to not only have fun but to give so much back to our community... and hopefully you can participate in the next event.

Special thanks to all the business owners mentioned (Sorry if I forgot anyone!) and to all the volunteers who help put this all together!

Peace and love!"

Thank you to so many people involved in making this successful.

Another thanks to Bruce for his donation of a dinner for 30+ people in his restaurant, Teatro Limon. And, another thanks to Debbi for paying 16,000 pesos for the dinner. This definitely helped us get over 50,000 pesos for Pasitos de Luz.

Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers. There is no way we could have done this without you!!! Big hugs to all of you.

Tim Longpre

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