What happened at Giant Monopoly!!

Posted by Gabby Knaepple 
 
 
Giant Monopoly fundraiser on Friday 8th April at Box Hill Town Hall
 
Judith, Sue W, Russell and Gabby along with 3 friends of Russell and Sue attended the Giant Monopoly fundraiser on Friday night. 
 
Firstly congratulations to Whitehorse Rotaract who ran a really good and fun event.   All money raised will go to Art Building Childrens Dreams (ABCD) which is an international project of the RC of Templestowe - to date the project has raised around $400,000 - Rotaract have run four Giant Monopoly nights so far to contribute to this very fine total. 
 
There were 11 teams - we were the "cannon" team. 
 
As the photos below show - there is a giant size monopoly board with giant pieces and a couple of big blow up dice.  The aim of course is to collect as many properties as you can so you collect lots of rent.  There were a number of challenges to sort out which team got the rights to buy a property if more than one team landed on on the  same square. One of these included wrapping a team mate in toilet paper!
 
All up there were 12 rounds - of the 12 rounds we managed to go to jail 3 times and we never got to pass "Go" to collect an extra $200 because we kept going to jail!!!.  But we did not let this deter us - once in jail we discovered collectively we had a multitude of talents that allowed us to be released from jail most expediently!  To get out of jail we had to complete challenges - these included doing the "nutbush" , yodeling, bouncing a ping pong ball on bat for 30 seconds, balancing a ping pong ball on a bat etc.
 
The 3rd and final time we went to jail, the mayor and the jailer felt we were so noisy and badly behaved they made us do 3 challenges before letting us go!!  
 
Despite our 3 incarcerations we still managed to buy 4 railway stations and were able to collect lots of rent when we weren't in jail!.  We came a very respectable 3rd.  1st place went to the team from RC of Mont Albert and Surrey Hills.  2nd place not sure.
 
Highly recommended if you want to have a lot of fun and raise money for a worthwhile cause.
 
And finally a cartoon sent through especially because District Governor David was there on the night but didn't win!
 
  
 
 
Thanks to Sue W for photos
 
 
 
challenge for free property - jumping on balloons                         another challenge
 
 
 
The Giant board                                                                                               with giant dice
 
 
 
off we go again after being in Jail!!                                 the 3rd visit to Jail!!