A New Family Hobby!?!

I think I discovered a new family hobby that will keep everyone happy. It involves maps (to please dad), paper and stamps (to please mom) and a treasure hunt (to please the kids). It also involves taking trips to unknown places and often times a little walk through the woods. What is this new found hobby you ask? Letterboxing! Letterboxing (similar to geocaching only without the GPS) is relatively new to the U.S. but has been in England and Europe for many years. A quick search on the Letterboxing website will give you all of the details that you need to begin your first hunt. It involves searching for boxes that are hidden in parks, cemetaries, museums, etc. and collecting the stamps. There are several dozen hidden around Columbus alone! The idea is to make a really cool homemade stamp, but because of lack of time and materials, we just used one we had on hand, but I think I'll make one at somepoint that represents our family. This was a relatively easy hunt and it took us to a field at a Catholic University. The box was in a tree hiding at the end of a stick! It was very exciting. Eli and Sadie were so excited by the discovery:

Our very first stamp:

Posing with books and letterbox:

Yea for family fun!!!