Letterboxing

Isaac wading in the fountain.

Seri and Michael in our newly discovered wading pool, fully dressed please notice :) Yes, I drove home with three children in underwear.

Our nice security officer who showed us in the right direction and his Segway that we are all jealous of.

Stamping our new find into out log book.

Seri and Isaac finding the "Seattle Inn" letterbox. It was hidden beneath this rock.

A few of our friends participate in a hobby called letterboxing. find out more info here; http://www.letterboxing.org/index.php

So, finally we decided to join in. We found our first letterbox in a nearby park. Of course I forgot to bring the camera and so we don't actually have pictures of our first "find". After following all of the clues we (well, actually Matt. It was hidden behind some stickery branches) finally found "Danni's Palamino". It was so exciting and we so wanted to do more that day, but ran out of time.

Tuesday on the way home from coop we stopped off at the rest stop that was the exit before ours and tried to find the "Inn at Sea-tac hitch hikers hostel". What a tricky one that was! It had us looking in a variety of areas, I think because I read to much into the clues. We really thought we were going to have to abandon looking and come back later with dad. Then as we were heading back to the car Mom had a realization and found it. Yeah!

Today we went to the Seattle Center for the members preview of Collosal Fossils (more about that in another blog). There was also a letterbox in the Seattle Center that we wanted to find, "Blockhead". We went to the fountain as the clue said (the fountain I blogged about earlier) and looked all over for the plaque that said it was built for the "World's Fair". We so couldn't find it. So we went about our day. However, it really bothered me that we couldn't find it so we looked again, everywhere... Folklife fest starts tomorrow and there were a ton of booths being set up so I blamed it on the sign being lost behind the booths. Right as we were about to give up I asked this nice security man on a really cool Segway where the plaque for the Fountain of creation was. He laughed and said we were at the wrong fountain and them proceeded to take us to the right fountain. Ha!! I didn't even know this one existed! So we get to the fountain and the children are begging to play in it, clothes and all. So I said what the heck. Well actually it is a wadding pool that is about two and a half feet deep, so they really went swimming. The officer and I looked all over for the plaque and then he had an aha moment and left. When he came back he announced that the plaque was actually at the top of the fountain at a look out. Would have never found it if it wasn't for him, so thank you Mr. Security officer!!

Tomorrow we are off to the zoo for our walking program and to find the letterboxes in the "silly story" series at Point Defiance park. Wish us luck!!