What a day!!

We took Flat Buddy out boxing today...we knew there was a chance of thunderstorms, but they were 'scattered' so we didn't worry about it :)

We found a few boxes, one place had 2 boxes and this was our third time trying to find them...they are 'mystery' boxes of sorts, the clue told us what town they were in, but we had to figure out where in that town, no wonder they had a hard time with them, but we found them today :)

We then went to finish a series we started a few months ago, Flat Buddy wasn't able to log that one because he didn't start at the beginning of the adventure...but we told him that we would be going back to that location though to meet the creators of the adventure and possibly the other boxers that followed the adventure.

We headed out for the last box of the day. When we pulled up to the location, it started pouring and in order to get to the box you had to go down a hill a little bit. Well, when the rain died down just a little 'dad' got out and retrieved the box for us all to stamp in....YAY!!!

Even though everything was all wet and there was a chance of it continuing to rain on and off, we headed to a little park of sorts to have a picnic, that was the original plan for the day, so we decided we'd stick with it. We got to the place soon after since it was only down the road.

The hamburgers were cooking, everything was looking good then just as the last 2 hamburgers were about ready to come off the grill it started raining, not much but as soon as we got them off the grill, boy did it rain. Cats and dogs would be an understatement, it was raining elephants as Butterfly Melody said. So we ended up eating in the van while it was raining elephants and thunder was rolling & lightening was lighting up the sky!

It stopped raining shortly before we finished eating, so we cleaned up the grill, packed everything up and headed back to meet up with other letterboxers.

We met up with CathCainGwen, Rebel Boxer and turtleandhorse, what a great bunch of boxers they were, they all loved Flat Buddy, but we didn't get a picture :( but that's ok, we had ice cream while we were there!!!!!

On our way home, we stopped to get another box in a cemetery, but found out from CathCainGwen afterwards that she removed it :(

Then we tried to stop AGAIN (we tried on our way out too) to stop at Beardslee Castle to get that stamp, but there were still quite a few people milling around from the craft show that was going on earlier...we told him that this place is haunted, hope we're able to go back to get the stamp before he has to head home.

Flat Buddy arrives!

Flat Buddy is just that, he's flat, not a stuffed animal. Blackberry Patch let him come visit us for a little while from Baton Rouge, LA.

We took him out to find his first box yesterday, it was a newly planted box and we were First Finders for it :) It was in the cemetery in our town and only a few blocks away from home, so we decided to stop for it on our way to a friend's house to go swimming.

Here's a picture of Flat Buddy at the headstone of the person the box was planted 'in honor' of - Bud Fowler...here's a link about Bud Fowler if interested...

http://www.nlbpa.com/fowler__john_w__-_bud.html

Noodles on my back visits us!!

Noodles On My Back came to visit us in May 2008, he lives in Ohio with Bone Yard Recorder.

He was such a pleasure to have here. He came with his own tote back and everything, it was so cool :)

We were able to get out boxing a few times with Noodles and we were even First Finders for several boxes we found with him, he certainly enjoyed that :)

Gin-ey comes to visit

Gin-ey is LndCrzr's Boxing Buddy. He is definitely a unique buddy :) He came from Missouri in March 2008 to do some boxing with us.

Gin-ey ended up staying with us for an unusual length of time. He went to North Carolina with us during our Spring Break in April, he was happy to leave our 'cooler' temps in NY to get some sunshine and warmer temps.

Teasel the Hedgehog comes for a visit!

Nitrocat's boxing buddy Teasel the Hedgehog came to visit us in November 2207 from Newark, IL.

He got to know Kenny Caribou while visiting, he also went to North Carolina with us for Thanksgiving.

Teasel & Kenny became fast friends, they wouldn't let us go boxing without taking both of them, unfortunately we didn't get a whole lot of boxing in during their stay, but we did manage to find 8 while we were in NC.

Kenny Caribou pays us a visit!!

Kenny Caribou is from Anchorage, Alaska!! He belongs to Brown Eyes.

Kenny came to visit us in November 2007. He even got to go to North Carolina with us for Thanksgiving. We did some letterboxing while we were there too.

One of the places we went letterboxing while in NC was Rankin Lake Park and they had a Frisbee Golf Course, Kenny really wanted to play, but we didn't have a frisbee with us and besides we really wanted to find the boxes :)

We saw a really cool bonsai tree in the park, Kenny and our other visiting buddy Teasel insisted on having their picture taken in the tree, they really enjoyed the tree :)

Crabby comes for a visit!!

Cannonball's Boxing Buddy came to visit us from Annapolis, MD back in September 2007.

We had a lot of fun with him...we had him while we had Heartie, so most of the pictures and adventures are the same.