Strypes was here

You see what happened was.....

Photo Credit: pixabay.com

So I am loving @steemit and come across @santagroed-christmas and this wild scavenger hunt.

Awesome don't you think?

Step one:.. Resteem! done!

Step Two

"Create a post on mspsteem.com (this is a clone of steemit.com, but it has a 5% beneficiary to @minnowsupport and it's run by @netuoso) and put the following stuff in it:

Start by finding a good Christmas/Holiday pic from pixabay.com and linking that image. If you wanna do something non-Christmas or some other holiday ok... get a yule log..."
~ Santagroed- Christmas Scavenger Hunt

Ya See What Happened was...

So I join pixabay.com and attempt to get a link for the photo I chose and I don't believe I know how to do that. These are the links I thought I needed. When I posted them here... no photo ...So I saved the free photo and posted it at the beginning of this post.

https://pixabay.com/photo-3007032/
https://pixabay.com/en/jesus-child-crib-christmas-kids-3007032/

I like Yule logs too!

Toss some H2O on that and watch it STEEM!!

More of Step 2

"Find 3 minnows (people with under 5k Steem Power) and post a thoughtful comment on different posts. I'll accept a meme or a gif with a friendly comment with it. Take snapshots and include those in your mspsteem post. Hopefully you'll gain some followers for this."

Minnow # 1
@imaginationicon

Minnow # 2
@kayclarity

Minnow # 3
@adventurerider

Step Two continued ...

"Comment on 3 posts by dolphins or whales. Take snapshots and put those in the post. Hopefully you'll catch some nice votes for this."

I hope that I understand that dolphins and whales have more than 5k steem power? That is the assumption i am going with...

So I go looking for Whales

What I discovered is the richest whales do a lot of resteeming and not much posting. Some have never posted.

Strypes<==keeps looking for whales

Big Fishy #1
@papa-pepper

I did not know @papa-pepper was a whale. I have met him before. He takes awesome photos.

Big Fishy #2
@good-karma

Good-karma is a whale too! Who knew?

I already know him sort of... I have been participating in the #steemadvent for the past 19 days! It has been lots of fun. (my coconut rum balls won day five... how awesome is that?)

Big Fishy # 3
@daveks

I have seen his photos before too. He is quite talented.

Step Two continued

"Join the Minnow Support Project Discord Server called PALnet by clicking this: https://discord.gg/dpGVBcy. Take a snapshot of you typing in there. Hopefully you'll build a community around you by doing this."

I had already joined and had made a couple of connections but here are the screenprints

I had to reclaim my account.. oops!

Step two moving right along

"Get registered in there and use the $upvote URL command to get a small vote from the account @minnowsupport. Enjoy the vote as a free gift, and take a snapshot to show it happened!"

I was quite fortunate in that Discordant was there to help me..

"Compliment someone in PALnet (take a snapshot). Hopefully you make a friend."

lol He knew I was doing this scavenger hunt.

"Listen to a mspwaves radio show and take a snapshot of yourself in the audience in Discord. You can check out the schedule at mspwaves.com. Post that image. Hopefully you find some entertainment here and learn something about other Steemians."

"Go to steemit.com/~witnesses and vote for any witness. Hopefully you pick some from the Minnow Support Project, but they all count. Take a snapshot of a witness vote you made and include it in the post."

"Share your gratefuls. Tell us three people and 3 things you're grateful for this end of year."

#1 I am thankful for my friends.
#2 I am thankful for my family
#3 I am thankful for a dear friend turning me on to steemit!

"Share your hopefuls. Tell us what you're looking forward to in 2018."

My minnow #1 is also my real life friend and he is an adventurer and in the spring of 2018 will be going on a cross country FAT-BIKE tour. I am really looking forward to his post. It is going to be so exciting. I have followed his adventures and he is really amazing.

"Share your freedoms. Tell us what you're not going to carry into 2018."

My first thoughts are TMI and way to personal to post so.... my response to this is I will not carry self doubt into the new year.

"Share a story of how the Minnow Support Project or someone in it helped you."

Earlier in chat, @Discordant, @minnowsupport, and @banjo helped me with the registration. They were very patient with me.

"Optional: delegate any amount of Steem Power to @minnowsupport (doing so will earn you automatic upvote from @msp-lovebot) - https://mspdelegator.herokuapp.com/mspdelegator. Folks that delegate even just a handful of Steem Power are likely to catch larger votes from @minnowsupport.

I tried but couldn't get it to work. Maybe I need more steem power?

This is the best I could do.. I hope I did it right.

Merry Christmas and Thank you for the challenge!
: )