Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Several months ago we read the Spiderwick Chronicles and really enjoyed them. Yesterday our good friends, the McCurdy's mentioned a Spiderwick themed letterbox they discovered not far from their home. They didn't have time (or a compass) to finish the scavenger hunt and they wondered if we wanted to go back with them sometime. Of course we said "yes." So this morning we packed up our notebook and some snacks and a compass and headed for Monroe. The hike is about two miles long and took us about three hours to complete--hiking with one year old twins and a two year old sort of slows things down a bit. The bugs were biting, the kids were fighting over who gets to find the box and who gets to open it, Hunter needed the potty, the babies didn't want to walk, the babies wanted to walk, and Allison and I were desperately hanging onto our sanity. BUT. . . amazingly, we found four of the five letterboxes and by the time we were through, we were all smiling and very proud of our accomplishments. The stamps in this scavenger hunt are quite detailed and the fact that we'd read the books made it even more exciting. And while the hike was long, it wasn't very difficult, which makes it a great letterboxing adventure for kids. Thanks for the fun Trailhead Tessie!
 
Hey look! We found the pixies! (Box one and stamp one)
 
This was probably the trickiest of the four--those blasted dwarves--but it was really fun. (Box two and stamp two)
 
Here's the nixies and look, they left us a present under a very little Christmas tree growing on a rock. Okay, they didn't really leave the box under the tree--Hunter found it hidden closeby--but it still felt like Christmas when we found it! (Box three and stamp three)
 
And last but not least, box four and stamp four. Instead of hiking all the way over to this one, we off-roaded in a hayfield to another park entrance. Then Allison stayed with the sleeping babies and I hiked into the woods with the six big kids. We got a little sidetracked when Jarrett found a frog but it didn't take us too long to find the four-sister oak and our last letterbox. Go us!
And of course, the day wouldn't be complete without a picture of the twins. Yes, even they did a little hiking and climbing themselves!
posted by Shana # 10:08 PM 
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