Letterboxing…

After our trip to Clark’s we crossed to street to the overflow parking lot.  I had done a little research before we left home and learned that there were two letterboxes hiding somewhere over there.  We followed the first clue and it brought us right to the edge of the lot, behind a big rock and under some small boxes…

First box FOUND…

Unwrapping everything in the box…

The stamp inside the box…

Leaving our stamp on their book, with a little note…

Stamping our book with the first stamp…

After we found the first one, we started over to find the second.  This one was a little more difficult, bringing us further into the woods.  I had to leave Ichiro and Noby when I went to find it…

FOUND…

Next we travel up the road to the Indian Head Resort, where I knew another clue was hidden.

The Indian Head in the mountain…

Finding the box…

The grounds at the resort is just beautiful…

The stamp…

This is why the stamp is a teepee…

So now we decided to head to the Inn.  I think Ichiro had enough of me dragging him in the woods. haha  The GPS was sending us through Franconia Notch State Park and as we were driving I realized we had a clue for the Old Man in the Mountain.  As we all know the Old Man fell a while ago and someone had planted a 5th Anniversary of his Falling box.  I think this had to be the hardest of all the clues thus far.  We drove around and finally I jumped out and ran down this path.  I let Ichiro sit in the car to listen to the end of the race.  It wasn’t right but from down the path I could see what I thought was right.  So I ran back up the hill, ok walked fast, and jumped in the car.  I had Ichiro drive to where I thought it was and then jumped out again.  I followed the bike path, under the highway, past a small man made waterfall, 30 paces past a big rock to a fallen tree.  Under the tree… I found it, I great man made stamp of the Man in the Mountain… picture to come.

Where we “think” the Man was…

By the time we got to the Inn and unpacked, we fed Noby a yummy ghetto dinner of edamame, apple sauce and dry cherrios and put him to bed.  (please don’t lash me on that one)  He was so tired and went right down, we’ll have to see if he makes it through the night with us in the room.  Tonight will be the test to see if we’re sleeping on the pullout couch tomorrow. haha

So because I knew we had a microwave and fridge in our room, I planned on bringing a few meals that Ichiro and I could just heat up in the microwave.  I know, I am SUCH my mother’s daughter. LOL  I knew after our long day today that we would be in no mood to go out and I doubt they have any takeout where we are.  So tonight’s dinner was our yummy Spicy Thai Shrimp.  I  made the meals in old plastic take out containers that could be just tossed in the trashed when we were finished.  I know what you’re thinking, “Becky, you are such a great planner, you think of everything.  I can’t believe you made meals to take with you…”  Or maybe you are calling me “Lame and a Loser.”  But whatever you call it, I wasn’t that good.  I forgot forks so I made Ichiro eat with Noby’s fork and I used the spoon. HAHA GOOOOOO ME!!