On Saturday, Nate went online to find fun and cheap things to do around Seattle with kids. He found Letterboxing. Have any of you heard of this? I hadn’t. Basically, it’s a treasure hunt type thing, and it’s all over the country. You print out clues, bring a compass, and head out to find a box. In the box is a stamp, a pad of paper, a pen/pencil, and an ink pad.

The idea is that you have your own stamp and pad of paper. You find a box. You stamp your stamp in their book, and stamp their stamp in your book. Then you put the box back where you found it so someone else can dig it up.

So the first thing we did was head off to the stamp store and pick out our stamps. Here’s mine…

Hee hee hee. It’s a fish!

The three boxes we found on Saturday were in parks. We had an incredibly fun time. Nate says there are about 60 boxes in the Seattle area. He looked at the town where mom lives in Central Oregon, there are boxes down there. There’s even a box in the boonies on the drive down there. In the middle of nowhere in Government Camp.

The girls had SO much fun. They didn’t get it at first, and wanted to play on the park equipment while we found the box, but after awhile they got into it, and now they want to know when we’ll be going again.

Good times. I was absolutely sick that I didn’t bring my camera. Particularly when Nate was climbing through the holly bushes, and when we were hiking up a muddy mountainside with stamps and books in our hands.

On the knitting front, I’ve been working a bit on the VCC. I think I’ve knit about 4 inches on the right front, and am ready to begin decreasing the armholes again. Once again, I’m surprised to note how fun this sweater is to knit. It’s really enjoyable.

Today, aside from knitting, I hope to exercise and make cookies with the girls who have today off from school. Tonight, we are delivering invitations for a pumpkin carving party to a bunch of friends, and I figure if we bring cookies too, that’ll be even better.

Do any of you remember our pumpkins from last year?