The Excitement is Building!

I'm glad that February is a short month! The next event is the Texas Annual Letterboxing Event hosted by Silver Eagle and Baby Bear. These two gentlemen always do a fantastic job of hosting and I'm alway impressed with what they put together. Blue Butterfly and I have already made arrangements to sleep over in Bastrop so that we can participate in all of the fun activities of the event. We had a great time at the Wildflower Event last year and are gearing up for this one!

Saturday's Finds

Blue Butterfly and I decided to do some letterboxing on Saturday morning after the big event. We decided to go after four boxes in Tyler while we also ran a few errands...and of course...ate lunch. We started off by going to The Children's Park again because there is a new box there. This one is called THE HEART OF A CHILD. It was easy for us to find, stamp, and rehide.

Next, we headed to the TJC campus to hunt down SOCCER RULES! We made our way to the soccer bleachers and BB headed into the woods to find the box. She looked in what we thought was the hiding spot, but the box was no where to be found. I paced the bleachers and looked into the wooded area, thinking maybe I could spot the box if it had been misplaced. Sure enough, I spotted a camo box a little ways down hill from where it was supposed to be. BB retrieved it and we claimed our prize. After finishing up, she put it back in it's original spot and hopefully it won't get washed away again!

For our third box of the day, we headed to Chick-Fil-A to pick up MMMM! Sweet Tea. We pulled around to the back of the restaurants, but missed our turn into Chick-Fil-A. So, we turned around and headed back and pulled into the parking lot. We were just in time! Someone was pulling out of the designated parking spot that Kpat was leading us to. Once again, BB retrieved the box while I was on the lookout for onlookers. This stamp is a great carving. I'm looking forward to finding more of Kpat's creations.

Finally, it was time for us to head to Rose Rudman park to find RING MY BELL by TX Dragonfly. After we figured out where to park, we enjoyed our stroll through the trail to find this box. I highly recommend this box for anyone visiting Tyler. We really enjoyed our visit at the cancer pavilion and ringing the bell.

That was our day of boxing on Saturday. All in all, it was a fun weekend full of clues, stamps, and ink. Happy Trails!

Tyler Mini Meet

Friday evening was the Tyler Mini Meet and Greet. I happened to get to the pizza place right at 6:30 and the fun had already started! There were lots of people already there stamping into the event stamp, eating, exchanging, and visiting. Blue Butterfly did a great job of putting this event together and I enjoyed meeting new friends and visiting again with old ones.

The stamps I earned at this event:

Horse Rider-Exchange

Texas Pokey-Exchange

Purple Nic-Exchange

Tyler Mini Meet-Event Stamp

Just Rollin' Along-PT

Mother's Love-Exchange

KG of Palestine-Exchange

JGG of Palestine-Exchange

Kpat-Exchange

Pretty Kitty-Exchange

The Three J's-PT (thanks to Horse Rider for helping me out with that one!)

Pawtrekker-Exchange

Beautiful Butterflies-Exchange

Frog Kisses-Exchange

KamKat-Exchange

Ice-Exchange

Bambi-Exchange

Furry Friends-PT

What's My Major-PT

Cricket-PT

The Patriots Series

Once again, I had some personal business to take care of in Tyler. I'd called Blue Butterfly and told her after my errands, we should meet for lunch and possibly try to get the limited-time series of boxes at UT Tyler. She agreed and brought Roarin' Lion along for the jaunt.

As Roarin' Lion was admiring the bell tower, it sounded and he just about jumped out of his skin! It was pretty comical to watch him react to the loud clangs of the bells. He had no idea that was going to happen....let alone every fifteen minutes!!

We also really enjoyed ourselves at the pond. RL enjoyed taking pictures of the ducks and we regretted not bringing any bread to feed the little fellows with.

It was a good day and we found all four boxes we were seeking. Thanks to Fairy Dreamer for planting this series!!

My New Map

A few months ago, I commented to an lb friend of mine that I really liked the map she had on her website. As a result, she told me that she'd be happy to help me out with my own map if I'd just get the numbers to her. As a result....six months later...I finally got the numbers to my graphic artist....and...the above is the result. I find it difficult to believe I've actually found THAT many letterboxes in the past two and a half years. To be honest, I thought I was closer to hitting 400 than 500! Anyhow, I'm enjoying my map and want to say thanks to my good friend who made it for me!

Happy Trails!