Ashlyn had a fun optional assignment this week called Letterboxing. We go to this website and find a set of clues that lead us to a "box" kinda like a treasure hunt. The idea is to follow the directions given by the box placer to help the students with their compass homework, following step instructions, and right/left directions. We were so pumped to find there was a "box" in Kearney. So we made a letterboxing journal to keep track of all our new adventures. This one said it had a stamp in the box so once we found it we could stamp our journal and then put the stamp back in the box. John was working late on Thursday so we all climbed in our van and were so excited to give it a try...
So, we found the state park, found the parking lot, walked the trail, crossed two bridges, found the two evergreen trees, and looked under the second tree to the right 6 steps (yep, the one with the low branches that the placer said would contain the "box") ... BUT we were unsuccessful in finding our first box. We went back to the website to write the placer and noticed a ton of the Clay County boxes are *Missing* and we didn't notice that before. John is going to take us back to Watkins Mill tomorrow to try again for this one and a new one on the other side of the lake (he was such a great cub scouter and will just love this!) We'll keep you posted on these adventures soon!PS, If we have another discouraging adventure, John and I might make a "box" and have the kids find it that same day - before it becomes *missing* too :0)
Comments