Vida Vegan Con Scavenger Hunt Recap
Written by MarieThe last Vida Vegan Con has come and gone! We ate some seriously good food, we drank all the dranks, and we hung out with scores of insanely amazing people. We took on a lot with organizing a kick-ass scavenger hunt and after-party, and may have forgotten to factor hours in the day to sleep, but it was all worth it in the end.
We put together our very first scavenger hunt, and had a ton of fun coming up with ridiculous prompts. Our tasks were a little over the top at times, and may have overwhelmed some of our shyer participants, but the few people who took it on, ran with it. Out of the 35 total tasks, here are a few of our favorites:
It’s not going to rain on my parade! Form a mini-parade with at least three umbrellas.
“Woman laughing alone with salad” stock photos- a vegan stereotype in a nutshell. Laugh your way to the bank while holding any delicious vegan dish (even salad counts).
Sugar crash from all the amazing vegan sweets? Snap a pic of yourself or a friend utilizing an unusual napping spot.
Swim in a sea of your VVC Swag.
So. Ridiculous. A huge thanks to everyone who participated, and particularly to Jojo (Vegan in Brighton), Amey (Vegan Eats and Treats), Ted (Wok on the Wildside), Erika (Norton’s Movie Maps) and Rachel (Veggies and Meows), who took a vast majority of the photos, and are my new favorite people. If you’re curious as to what all we made these trusting people do, you can find the complete list of scavenger hunt tasks here. We can’t believe VVC is over, but at least we have the memories. Check out our gallery below for a more complete look at our favorite hunt photos (tip: don’t forget to read the captions).
- An umbrella parade a la Abbey Road! (Submitted by Erika)
- No rain on our parades!! Mom, me, and Meredith (from Kale Crusaders!). We are all such practical people that we have our umbrellas in our bags even on sunny days! (Submitted by Amey)
- Kick Butt vegan cowboy boots! Think these would be good to cut a rug while in town, no? @katmossmendenhall #vvcscavengerhunt (Submitted by Katie)
- Loving these red cowgirl boots by #katmossmendenhall at @vidavegancon #vvcscavengerhunt #vidavegancon #vidavegancon2015 #vvciii #vegan #veganfoodchat (Submitted by Carlo and Carmella)
- I'll only kick veganic compost in these Kick Butt Boots. #quickquickslowslow #VVCScavengerHunt #veganbazaar (Submitted by Wes)
- Sample sized foods are beard friendly. #VVCScavengerHunt @capcitybakery #veganbazaar (Submitted by Wes)
- Attempted to bite a cactus because a scavenger hunt told me to.. #VVCScavengerHunt @redhotvegan #vidavegancon #atxveganvaca (Submitted by Brit)
- My mmmm that @nadamoo ice cream is good face! Another favorite food made right here in texas! #favoritefoodfound #VeganBazaar #VVCScavengerHunt #minihunt @redhotvegan (Submitted by Brit)
- Capitol hat!!! (Submitted by Erika)
- Glam selfie time!!' (Submitted by Erika)
- Got a vegan tattoo while in town... Good enough to eat! (Submitted by Erika)
- This has gotta be worth some points-- vegan cookbook author, vegan tattoos received at VVCIII, and they match too! (Submitted by Erika)
- Batty for bats! I love that Austin is into bats because bats are so great! I took this picture even before the heart hands challenge- so great minds think alike! (Heart hands) (Submitted by Amey)
- Photo booth fun! Oh noes! I forgot to upload this one yesterday! What fun! So many great vegans in one pic -- even celeb Milo! (Submitted by Amey)
- 7! Just taking a quick nap on stage. (Submitted by Jojo)
- 3! VVC speaker Josh (aka Captain Scrofu) autographing my popcorn (Submitted by Jojo)
- 10! Swimmin' in a sea of swag! (Submitted by Jojo)
- Breast stroke thru the swag I love swag! I love swag! I love swag! (Submitted by Amey)
- Hitchin' a ride and getting my leg signed by a speaker! (Submitted by Erika)
- Is this a cactus? Whatever, I'mma eat it anyway (Submitted by Erika)
- Selfie with all three VVC gals! I completely ambushed these busy and effective ladies and forced myself upon them! In my scavenger hunt enthooooosiasm! (Submitted by Amey)
- My hand selfie with the three lovely and brilliant ladies of Vida Vegan Con. #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- I couldn't decide which top hat pick to submit... ... So I'm submitting two! (Submitted by Amey)
- Lockin horns with a stranger! We walked downstairs and found someone wearing longhorn colors and he had to show me what it meant to lock horns. Yeah! (Submitted by Amey)
- Crazy reflection in the hotel sink! I kept looking for a good spot to do my reflection picture - and then I noticed my reflection while brushing my teeth! Is it possible to be a part of Keep Austin Weird while wearing my nightie and brushing my teeth in the AT&T conference hotel? Unclear. (Submitted by Amey)
- 1! Cooling off with a Topo Chico! (Submitted by Jojo)
- 5! Charlie's vegan angels. I would like to note that I bought the herbivore shirt partly to get bonus points because I'm ridiculous. Also I changed my shirt under a table! (Submitted by Jojo)
- 8! A woman laughs alone with a taco. (Submitted by Jojo)
- Moon Tower plus sweet ritual ice cream!! I got the soft serve with chocolate sauce! Yumz. My mom got espresso. (Submitted by Amey)
- International high fives!! High fiving with Tara from Calgary! (Submitted by Amey)
- 2! Double fisting some of The Vegan Nom's finest tacos. (Submitted by Jojo)
- 9! High 5-Ing my Aussie blogger buddy! (Submitted by Jojo)
- Kickin' Butt with Vegan Boots! Friday Task 1 - I'm kickin' butts with the Ultimate Butt Lover, Tina Belcher from Bob's Burgers. I would be most excited to wear these boots to go bar hopping on 6th Street and then afterwards to a concert at Stubb's BBQ, where some of our favorite bands play, so all the meat-lovers would compliment them and I could happily tell them they are vegan boots! Woot! (Submitted by Rachel)
- Getting my butt kicked! I loved these bright red cowboy boots! (Submitted by Amey)
- Three or four photographing vegans! So much Miyoko's Cheese, so many cameras! (Submitted by Amey)
- Where's Waldo with Street art If you look closely, you can find me doing uttitahastapadangustasana in there! (Submitted by Amey)
- 4! Jazz hands with my very own VVC newbie. (Submitted by Jojo)
- 7! Just a little bunny fun inside Red Rabbit with Jessica! (Submitted by Jojo)
- Bunny ears with Gabriel It only seemed fair to do mutual bunny ears! (Submitted by Amey)
- Red Hot Vegans Scavenger Hunt #10: Unique street art... the ultimate duck face! (Submitted by Katie)
- Conscious Chris and the Vegan Cuts geniuses taking photos of food. @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- RHV Scavenger hunt - 3 people photographing food. (Submitted by Jojo)
- Vegan cookbook author - Jessica! Jessica wrote Vegan Taco Cleanse - and I even contributed some taco yoga to the book! Plus bonus tacos by Panda! (Submitted by Amey)
- 1! What could be more uniquely Texan than this pic of Sweet Ritual caramel sauce & locally made hot sauces taken inside Rabbit Food Grocery. (Submitted by Jojo)
- Three plus plus vegan tats, These gals are all inked up in veggie style! (Submitted by Amey)
- Tree pose! Taken by a certified yoga teacher (Amey), that's gotta be worth extra points, right!? 😉 (Submitted by Erika)
- Jojo is from England- high five!!! (Submitted by Erika)
- I don't laugh with salad! Only pan dulce cracks me up. (Submitted by Erika)
- 9! What's this? A selfie with ALL of the VVC organisers!!! (Submitted by Jojo)
- 5! HAT! (Submitted by Jojo)
- 1! Hook 'em horns (Submitted by Jojo)
- 4! I asked this lovely lady what she thought nutritional yeast tasted like... She said flour! (Submitted by Jojo)
- 8! <3 <3 <3 (Submitted by Jojo)
- 6! I had to look at a map to do this! (Submitted by Jojo)
- Texas Kolache Two observations- 1) I made my mom eat her dinner into the shape of Texas - and - 2) that breakfast kolache was one of the tastiest things ever. What is up with that sausage?! It is MAGIC (Submitted by Amey)
- Texas Two Step at the Buzzmill I can't say we really perfected the two-step, but we certainly had fun trying! This band was really quite good! It is a little known secret that I genuinely love country music. (Submitted by Amey)
- Heart hands with Volunteer Benjamin Thanks to all the great volunteers! (Submitted by Amey)
- Puttin on the Ritz And pullin up my boot straps! The hotel staff let me into a presidential suite to nab this pic from a balcony. Mwahaha (Submitted by Amey)
- VVC speaker Sayward signing my arm What a nice little moment together ! I sure love and admire Sayward. (Submitted by Amey)
- Amazing Gene Baur signing my sketchnote of his session. #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- Best. Faux. Panel. Ever. #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- 6! Doing some of my finest dance moves at the Vegan Cuts table. (Submitted by Jojo)
- The Ultimate ATX Vegan Author Selfie! Thursday Task 5 - The one and only Lazy Smurf, aka author of The Taco Cleanse, coming soon to a taco-obsessed city near you. (Submitted by Rachel)
- Charlie's Angels at the Herbivore booth! Britt and Michelle looking bad ass! (Submitted by Amey)
- Levitating with joy!! Jojo and Nick and I are jumping beans of vegan enthusiasm!! (Submitted by Amey)
- Stock Photo Mommy My mom eatin her taquito with appropriate levels of joy and enthusiasm. (Submitted by Amey)
- Bunny Ears on Jessica Rabbit Thursday Task 7 - I feel like I'm in 2nd grade again! (Submitted by Rachel)
- Sort of double-fisting tacos... But I needed a hand to take the photo... But I got two tacos... Partial points? #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- Two fisted taco appreciation Hearts on trucks, heart earrings, and two totally super yums tacos from Vegan Noms food truck. Yes! (Submitted by Amey)
- I love Topo Chico! I'm already a real sparkly water fan - so thanks for this tip. I had three today! (Submitted by Amey)
- Am I an angel or Charlie? #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- 3! What an I doing? Oh, not much, just a midnight moonwalk under a moon tower in Zilker Park! (Submitted by Jojo)
- 11! Just hanging with one of Austin's more famous bats. (Submitted by Jojo)
- Post digestive jazzercize! Some exercise after our dinner at Bouldin cafe. We even found an actual patch of grass! (Submitted by Amey)
- 7. Rabbit Food Grocery - meet, greet, and bunny ear (Submitted by Betty)
- 9. Keep Austin Weird: four of me waiting for a taco from a shiny food truck (Submitted by Betty)
- 9! This is my silliest face! (Submitted by Jojo)
- 5! Selfie with cookbook author Kelly Peloza. (Submitted by Jojo)
- 12! Getting physical with my aerobics buddies at in.gredients (Submitted by Jojo)
- Three three timers! Erika, me and Kelly! Huzzah! Kicking up a Texan storm at the Buzzmill. (Submitted by Amey)
- Love those VVC volunteers! <3 (Submitted by Erika)
- Sugar crash! Just gonna catch 40 winks under this table. I swear I'm not dead. (Submitted by Erika)
- 2! This is an incredibly heated panel discussion about whether the Armadillo's name should be Avocado or Dave. (Submitted by Jojo)
- A stimulating panel on the subject of breakfast I was really trying to stir up this gang into a rousing discussion regarding the merits of chia pudding vs breakfast tacos - but I wasn't really able to stimulate much dramaz!! (Submitted by Amey)
- The crash after the sugar rush is never as sweet as the treat. #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- Coming up for air in the swimming pool of SWAG. #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwidside (Submitted by Ted)
- Oh no! Kerry found me napping and drooling under the water table! Catchin a little shut eye after my zine workshop. Snooze. (Submitted by Amey)
- Nutritional yeast isn't bland!! I accosted this nice track athlete from Oklahoma Univ and wrote down that Nutritional Yeast was "Bland". I educated her on the truth of nooch. (Submitted by Amey)
- Ben and I rocking the volunteer heart selfie. #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- Food Photo'ing Thursday Task 2- The dudes from the "What's Up Fool?" podcast snapping pics of their delicious Texas vegan food! (Submitted by Rachel)
- Ribbit, Ribbit. Thursday Task 10 - Assimilating into my natural habitat. (Submitted by Rachel)
- Jazz Handzzz Thursday Task 4 - Who's excited to be at VVC? We're excited to be at VVC! And we're both VVC noobies! (Submitted by Rachel)
- Telling Secrets to My Friends Thursday Task 14 - Exchanging my deepest darkest confessions with the ever-loyal Texas cactus. (Submitted by Rachel)
- Yoga Photo Bomb! Can you see my feet? Mwahahhaa! (Submitted by Amey)
- Dancing with Chris at Vegan Cuts Shake a leg, punk!! (Submitted by Amey)
- Let's kick some butt at Monsanto and factory farms! #vvcscavengerhunt (Submitted by Ted)
- Worshipping the cactus! Those sweet little cacti need some tlc! (Submitted by Amey)
- Jazz hands!! Jazz hands always make life more fun! With two first timers AND at Rabbit Food Grocery! (Submitted by Amey)
- 14 Hi! I'm in an American person's yard eating their cactus! (Submitted by Jojo)
- Do I get double points for high fiving josh? He was born in Australia and lives in Germany. 😛 #vvcscavengerhunt @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)
- 10! Blending into some classic Austin street art. (Submitted by Jojo)
- Red Hot Vegans Scavenger Hunt #1: Only in Austin... The lone star on sewer manholes! (Submitted by Katie)
- Something you only find in Texas Me drinking out of a Texas mug in front of a wall of Texas paraphernalia while wearing a longhorns cap and a Don't Mess With Texas tee shirt. Aw yeah (Submitted by Amey)
- Meeting the amazing author and photographer Hannah Kaminsky. @wokwildside (Submitted by Ted)