2015 Summertime Photo Scavenger Hunt (Part 2)

Warning: this is a photo heavy post!
As I mentioned in Part 1 back in August, I have played with Rinda's Summer Scavenger Hunt for the past three years. It's fun to spot items from the list as you go about your Summer. I scrambled to finish last year and it will be the same this year! The deadline is September 21st, the official end of Summer, so we'll see...

SCAVENGER HUNT LIST

1. A bouquet of flowers ✔︎
2. An ornate door knocker ✔︎
3. A person walking a dog (or other animal) ✔︎
4. People playing a board game or card game ✔︎
5. Architectural columns ✔︎
6. A metal bridge ✔︎
7. A turtle ✔︎
8. Someone "plugged in" to social media ✔︎
9. A tent ✔︎
10. A college or university ✔︎
11. A cellular tower or television satellite dish ✔︎
12. A public restroom, bathroom, or toilet ✔︎
13. A merry-go-round or carousel Alternative B ✔︎
14. A traffic signal ✔︎
15. A flag pole with at least three flags on it
16. A panoramic view, taken while standing someplace high in the air
17. At least two people wearing matching outfits or uniforms
18. An overloaded truck, car, bicycle or other vehicle
19. A ticket booth
20. A natural body of water
21. A photograph of you with a sign reading "2015 Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt". Note: you may not use a substitute for this item.
If you find something on the list too difficult, you may substitute one of the following items for any one item on the list, except for Item #21:
Alternative A: People eating outside
Alternative B: Someone holding an umbrella ✔︎
Alternative C: A rocking chair

Here's my second installment of photos (1 to 6 can be seen here):

I had a tough time finding 7. A turtle until we recently went to visit the campus of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. They have a "Turtle Pond" around which students sometime take their tests:

 8. Someone "plugged in" to social media : see #12 for a two-in-one!

Now 9. A tent was really easy to find as we had the kids sleeping outside while visiting my family in France:

I also had many opportunities to photograph 10. A college or university throughout the Summer as we visited five campuses! My favorite? Probably Stanford University:

Back to France, and more precisely to the top of the Puy de Dôme. That's where I found 11. A cellular tower or television satellite dish (and it's a massive one!):

Of course, I much preferred the view looking down:

I found 12. A public restroom, bathroom, or toilet in San Francisco early in the hunt and it also shows 8. Someone "plugged in" to social media, who just happened to be my oldest teen ;)

I am using an alternate for 13. A merry-go-round or carousel which I might have encountered but forgot to photograph. Instead, I am using Alternative B: Someone holding an umbrella:

How can you not love these two Monet paintings sitting side by side in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris? 

And finally, have you ever seen 14. A traffic signal like this one? It was a first for me so of course I took a picture of it:

A miniature traffic light!

As you could see I chose to share them in the order of the list rather than in the order they were taken, giving no real thread to my travels... It's part of the fun... the thread and the stories are for my scrapbooks ;)

PS: All photos are mine and were taken with an iPhone

Happy weekend!