Things like this make me splendidly happy:

It’s surreal! It’s inflatable! It will change how you see the Twin Cities!

IT’S THE B.U.G. — BIG URBAN GAME!
SEPTEMBER 3 – 7, 2003, IN MINNEAPOLIS AND SAINT PAUL

WHAT IS IT?

A citywide game that turns the Twin Cities into a 108-square mile giant game board. Three teams race three giant (26 feet high) inflatable game pieces — Red, Yellow and Blue — from three different starting points along three different routes between checkpoints in Minneapolis and St. Paul to a shared destination on the Lake Street/Marshall Street bridge, spanning the Mississippi.