LetterBoxing

Last year we did some GeoCaching and LOVED it. This year we discovered Letterboxing and have fallen for it hook, line and sinker.  Letterboxing is a lot like GeoCaching, but instead of worrying about a treasure to replace and share with 9 kids everyone has their own "Passport Book" in which they put the stamp that we find from each letterbox hunt.

This is everyone making their passport books.  Everyone got very creative.

Then everyone got to pick a "Personal Stamp" (from my stash of stamps that I collected in my stamping days).

All that took up a good day.  So the next day we set out to find our first "Box".  Heading for the Olympia pier.  We followed the clues and found the black rock with a triangular rock underneath but no box could be found.

We did have fun seeing the sites though.  Jelly fish, sea shells, totem poles, boats for sail and.......

Fishermen statues.

Not to be detered, we set of for McLane Trailhead to learn all about gnomes.  Elijah found gnome homes all over the place.  But we were haing no luck finding the boxes (there were three).  Then I found this cool tree.   (If you look closely it looks like ribs)

I had everyone climb on it to take a picture.

Then someone recognized the path as a clue for the middle box and we were only a couple yards away from it.

Here is the stamp.  It took me a while to figure out what it was and so I put it sideways in most everyone's books.  Now they all do their own stamping LOL

After 2 hours of wandering around enjoying the scenery, finding gnome homes, hearing gnomes and not finding any other boxes, we all went home.... happy, but very tired.

All in all a great way to spend a day!