What a hunt!

Friday we set off on what would turn out to be an adventure and more than we had bargained for! We went to find the letterbox set "silly story". This was a set with five different stamps. We ended up finding all but number two and that we searched for for around two hours!! Finally, we had to abandon our first stamp ever, but are determined to go back and find it. Anyhow, we had planned to visit the zoo also, but didn't realize the stamps would take all day. By the time we finished the zoo was closed so we went down to the beach for a bit. Matt had been wanting to go to a beach since we arrived in Washington but we hadn't made it to one. On the way out of the park we saw this racoon just sitting there on the side of the road. I made Matt go back to it so I could take this picture. He was staring right at me and I started to get a little fearful. I asked Matt if racoons could jump and attack and he said "you better take that picture quickly". Still don't know if he was saying that to scare me or not.

Seri asked if she could go swim and we said yes, however the water was so cold she only made it in up to her chest.

The children jumping over the waves. I am not sure why we even bothered rolling up their pants as they were socking wet. For the second day in a row we drove home with three naked kids.

Sariah was not at all sure that she liked these rocks. After awhile though she was trying to put fist fulls in her mouth.

Finding box number four. I love it when they say "Look for the tall tree", or "behind the nurse stump". Hello, we are in the middle of a forest!!! Exactly which tall tree are you refering to?

These boxes were planted very well, and I was impressed because they taped the bottom of the boxes with a forest camoflage duct tape, so they were REALLY hidden!

The park where the clues were hidden was a fairy tale park and had little statues and houses from fairy tale characters. The first clue was hidden behind Gingerbread Jill's house. Unfortunately the storms this past winter really damaged a lot of the park and much of it was missing or in repair.

A part of the clue said "find the place where you think Jill's house will be, Hint, she likes to live close to the library".

Well, Point Defiance park is actually a really huge park (Setting: Pt Defiance Park—the greatest park in all of Puget Sound, covering 698 acres and 18,500 feet of shoreline. It is the second largest metropolitan park in the country, second only to Central Park in New York City!) and we had no idea where to begin since we had never actually been to the park part before. We pulled over and looked at a map and saw a location called "Neverland", Bingo!!!! Sure enough we pulled up and saw these huge books!! We knew we were in the right place.