The Bernie Scandal - Cheaters Suck

Earlier in the week I posted on the Facebook page that the Milwaukee Brewers were launching a marketing promotion using a lawn art version of their mascot Bernie.

Being ever resourceful in the ways of yard art I managed to find a source...(well The Hubby did), a source willing to try to procure for us A BERNIE.

Here’s Lisa's story:

The first I knew of any scavenger hunt for Bernie Brewer lawn ornaments was when you asked if I would try to get one for Cheri.  I looked online (maybe a week before the event)….1400 left in parks in southeaster Wisconsin, some with prizes, the hunt starts at 5am.  I didn’t hear any other advertisements, none of my friends knew about it.   So I put it on my calendar to skip yoga and bike thru BayView Park (across the street from my house) and see if I get lucky. (that is a real friend who will skip yogo to locate a Bernie for you)

4:30 am…and it’s 45 degrees outside. My enthusiasm is significantly diminished.  But I get online to see if there’s chatter. Turns out the scavenger hunt is part of a bigger “Where’s Bernie?” promotion. Bernie has been missing from the Brewer’s stadium for a couple weeks and he’s been communicating with his fans via Twitter. So I follow him on Twitter and find he has posted clues to which parks the statues are hidden in.  The only one that I think I can figure out is called South Shore Park and that’s just a couple miles away.

So I decide to trade in the bike for the car and head to South Shore Park.  There was only one other car in the lot and a couple of people walking. The sun was coming up over Lake Michigan as I walked around the pavilion, checked in the jungle gym equipment, looked by the art installations….nothing.  Now there’s a few more people and I think they are looking for Bernie’s too but they are far enough away from me to make it difficult to strike up a conversation.

While I’m looking, I’m wondering what I’m looking for.  Are they out in plain sight?  Hidden in garbage cans or in trees?  In boxes or bags?

I drove around the perimeter of the park looking for anything out of the ordinary and then I headed home. (drat....)

By mid morning the news was all about the Bernie scandal!  http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/122548503.html

Turns out over-zealous lawn ornament aficionados started before the 5am official start time and took more than one.  OH, the shame! 

 (in this world, there is nothing lower than a Bernie Cheater)

But I did solve the clue correctly!  There was statues at South Shore Park, just not at 5am.

Thanks Lisa!!!! I owe you. I'll go up one morning at 4:30 for sympathy non-sleeping-in-ness.

FYI, Lisa has actually been in a flash mob so she is cooler than me. But as God is my witness...I will flash mob. YAW!