Official Letterboxers Now!

Today we had such a great time going Letterboxing. Some of you may be saying, "What is that?". Some friends of ours introduced us to letterboxing about a year and a half ago and it sounded like so much fine. The whole premise is that your whole family follows clues to find small boxes hidden anywhere in the United States (there are thousands of them). Inside the box is a stamp, and a little notebook. In the notebook, you put your stamp and write where you're from and the date and whatever else you want to put. Then you take their stamp and put it in your notebook and document any information that you want. The whole idea is to get families out of the house exploring new places, mostly outside at parks or interesting areas. We found our 2nd and 3rd letterbox today at a park in McKinney. If you're interested you can go to http://www.letterboxing.org/ to get clues or find out more about it. We have a lot of fun searching for the boxes and we get to try new trails and places we might not have otherwise explored. Here are some pics of our adventure:

Jonah and I searching for the box hidden in the hole of a fallen tree. They are very hidden, so that people don't take them who don't know what they are.

Jonah, Caleb and Adam searching for our second box. We were searching for four trees that together made a V shape.

We found the box! Notice the V shaped tree behind us!

Here we are stamping our books. Don't you like Jonah's "Safari" hat, as he calls it!

Afterward we explored the Town Lake Park, and even fed the ducks some Cheez-Its that we had stashed in the car. Some birds decided to join the fun and we threw the crackers in the air as they swooped down to catch it. Jonah just giggled away, and Caleb just ate the Cheez-Its!