On Sunday morning, we were itching to get over to Memorial Park and find some of the many, many boxes located there. We were only staying about 4 miles from the park, so it didn't take us long to get there. We started off by going to the Arboretum so that we could first find Baby Bear's Parting the Waters #1. We easily followed the clues to his box and wondered what the other half of this joke would look like...but it would have to wait!
Blue Butterfly had already found A Box of Legos by MO5, but I was dying to get it myself, so we wandered over and stamped into this fun little box. After taking care of that, I hid Fireworks, which is a carving by Mama Cache. I gave the clues to BB so she could stamp into her first Mama Cache production.
After completing our mission at the arboretum, we went down the road to the mountain bike trails. We had lots of fun finding various boxes, mostly from the Yellow Brick Trail event that day. BB had already found some of these, but she humored me as I found some of her favorites. One of the most pleasurable boxes is A Texas Tornado in Oz. It's one of those boxes that has the complete package: location, stamp, and logbook all tie together for the theme of the box.
We took a short break for lunch, then hit the trail again. We scouted out where our next adventures would be so that we could be somewhat organized. We eventually finished up at memorial park, then found a mystery box. After finding the mystery box, we looked on the map to try and find the 11th street park for Dewberry's Box of the Month. We had two maps, but none of the streets from the clue were listed on either map. I decided to use our greatest resource--a local letterboxer. I got Mother of 5 on the line and she was happy to give us directions to 11th street park. Thanks to her, we were able to log into our last couple of boxes for the day. By this time, it was pushing 5:00 and we needed to head home.
Our trip was a pretty successful one. We visited many boxes by many different carvers and had a jolly good time. Merry Christmas to all the letterboxers out there!
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So glad you had fun! With my "directional dyslexia", I was wondering if you would find 11th street park, or end up in Alaska! Merry Christmas to your whole crew, MO5
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