Real Life Where's Waldo?

Ok, so this week I was informed about an awesome thing that U-haul does. I'm sure you've all seen their new trucks with the picture on it and some random fact about a place in America. These graphics are not only beautiful to look at, but they all have a hidden picture in them too! U-haul's mascot "Sammy U" is hidden somewhere in every Venture Across America picture. This week at work, a U-haul was parked right outside our window and we literally spent the entire day looking for Sammy U! We finally took to Google to help us because we could not find him anywhere. I ended up tweeting the official U-haul Super Graphics account, who messaged the illustrator of the picture, who gave us a clue. We finally found the little guy but it was so faint on this particular truck that we would have never found it without help. Now I have a mission to find Sammy U on every U-haul truck I see!


Here's a picture of what you're looking for:

Sammy U! Named after U-haul's founder, L. S. "Sam" Shoen

Here's the truck that was parked outside work:

Gary and Maddy looking for Sammy U.

We finally spotted him. As you can see, this was incredibly faint and small. But you can see the "U" and in real life (as in not a picture) you could make out Sammy's head and body.

I love this new adventure I now have! Every time I find a U-haul I am going to look for Sammy U!

Here's a video of someone else finding Sammy U which shows him much better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqK3dtK3YxY

I also recently discovered a cool exhibit on the walk to work. On Baltimore, between 13th and 14th, I noticed these markers. Each of them representated a planet in our solar system. It's actually to scale with Pluto at Union Station and the rest of the planets all the way to 13th Street. Just shows you how far out Pluto was (and maybe why it's not considered a planet anymore!)

Each marker had a planet and some facts about them. One interesting fact was it said I was reading the text by light that had left the sun eight minutes ago! Crazy! So, check it out sometime and learn all about our solar system!

Last week, I tried out another burger place on 39th Street, KC Smoke Burgers. This was a very unique experience! When you first walk in, you notice that everything has been written on with markers. It's rather odd. The smell is also very intense. It smells of wonderful smoked burgers!

We all ordered the cheeseburgers and they came out on little individual smokers! Pretty cool.



I really liked how they marked the buns with KC S for KC Smokeburger. The patties were huge and very flavorful. It almost was too much of the smoky flavor. The fries were excellent. One weird thing, no beer! I just found that to be incredibly odd to have a burger joint and no beer. Oh, well!

Found another fountain this week, hidden inside Power and Light at Main at 13th. It's inside the block, right beside Burger King Whopper Bar.

No. 89- Power and Light- block of Main between 13th and 14th



More adventures to come...Laura