My sister came into town for the day and had just learned about "letter boxing." Check it out here. I'm not very familiar with geo caching, but it sounds similar. With letter boxing, people hide a rubber stamp and a notebook somewhere and post clues or a riddle for you to find their letter box. You bring along your own stamp and notepad to stamp your stamp in their book and their stamp in your book. So after a little while, you'll gather a passport-like book of a bunch of adventures!
The hardest part was deciding which stamp to buy to make my mark. My sister convinced me it would be funny to leave "cooties" in all these peoples books!
The crew on our quest...getting ready to "head left past the birdhouses."
So, if all went according to plan, the next picture should be of the letterbox we found with the cool stamp in our books. Sadly, NO BOX WAS FOUND! I think we were a little excited to test it out and should have realized the rain we just had would make it a little interesting. Plus, a small shovel would have been much better to dig with than the sandwich bag the kids had their fruit loops in. Between the mud, and the overgrowth, and the MOUSE...(eww..it just made me shiver again!) we decided we'd come back another day with some better equiptment.
We kept walking on the path because it was such a pretty place and did find a treasure of a park for the kids...I'm sure the playground was just as cool as finding a stamp in the dirt.
I am hooked into the letter boxing thing. We may have to go for a nice Sunday walk tomorrow and if I happen to kick around a little dirt and perhaps uncover a fantastic jewel of a stamp, so be it. (Don't worry Mom, I won't do any sweating so as not to break the Sabbath. heh!)
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