The Elephant Scale

You know how everyone always comes back from vacation and says, “Oh! There was food everywhere! I gained X pounds”? Well I thought it would be interesting to see how our group fares on that front. We’re eating and drinking like fiends—good food, good beer, good wine! But we’re also skating some 250 miles! I wonder which one will win out?

I thought it would be cool if we could all get weighed as a group—that way no one has to worry about their own specific weight, but we could see as a collective whether we gained or lost. I mentioned this months ago to Natalie, and she said, “Ooh! I can get us in to use the animal scale at the Houston Zoo!”

Well, we weren’t quite able to ALL get there, but we did get 8 of our 15 travellers to the zoo after hours last Thursday, and here is a photo of the 8 of us standing on the scale (the reading is in kilograms). I’ve converted to pounds and added in 6 of the 7 others (I’ll adjust when I have the last one).

Our total going in is 2261 pounds.  What do you think? Are we going to eat more than we skate, or skate more than we eat? Tune in after the trip to find out!