Today we had three challenges set up in the small Nation of Andorra. If you’ve never heard of that country which I hadn’t until we were told we were going there, you should look it up it’s a very interesting place. So our first challenge was scheduled to be and Alpine slide. It just so happens that this Alpine slide it is also the largest one in the world. It’s 400 m elevation from the starting base and the course runs for over 5 km. We were scheduled to have the entire course all to ourselves. However, when we got to the park the company stated that the Alpine slide was close for the day. When we saw this on their website we thought it was closed for us. Unfortunately the company thought we were coming tomorrow. Good for us Steve had plenty of email trail showing that we reserved this for today. The only problem with that was that they still didn’t have any workers there to run the ride even though they agreed that we had reserved for today. So Steve our fearless leader, after multiple phone calls, actually spoke to one of the owners of the park to try to work things out. In the meantime knowing that nothing was going to happen right away they moved us to our second challenge that was a paintball game down at the bottom of the mountain. Therefore we all packed back into the bus and headed down the mountain to the Paintbal game. The paintball game was interesting. Our team had mostly people who have never done it before and we did not have very good strategy against the other teams and only captured the flag a couple times in all of our attempts. But what we did capture was a lot of welts from being pelted by paintballs. Dang those can sting (see photo below). Needless to say, we didn’t do very good with our points on that challenge.

After the pain of the paintball challenge was completed we moved on to mini formula 1 racing challenge. These were souped up go carts and they moved really fast. We had two sets of races for each competitor. We all did pretty well on that challenge and I think got some points to make up for lackluster showing at paintball. 😜 Kelsey did really well for not even being able to drive yet.

Once we completed our races, they finally had everything arranged for the Alpine Slide challenges. We had to go all the way back to the top of the mountain where the Alpine slide was but it was truly worth it. We had the entire course to ourselves. Heck, we had the entire park to ourselves because the park closed an hour before we got there. Now, I’m not a big fan of roller coasters so wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. We got strapped into our Alpine slide vehicle and a series of cables hold us up sometimes a very sharp angles towards the top of this portion of the mountain. It was a vertical elevation of 400 m from the bottom of the course. Once we got up to the top there was a short wait while the person in front of us went and then we were let go. On these Alpine racers there is two speeds, full speed forward or use the break. I actually really enjoyed the trip and didn’t have any significant issues like with roller coasters. It was an absolute blast. After our first challenge run with and got to go up for just a fun run down again. That was an amazing afternoon.

Once we have completed our second run we got back on the bus and headed back to the hotel. We went out to dinner and then head back to the hotel to finish up another challenge where we had to make a video about our run on the Via Ferrata yesterday. That was pretty fun as well. Tomorrow we travel back to Barcelona via bus then get on a plane to Zurich, Switzerland!!