I'm Goin on a Troll Hunt

... well actually others will go on a troll hunt! After watching a crazy flick called "troll hunter" and liking it, i felt like a nerd... then i was bringing Daughter to joy school and realized that i pass two bridges on the way there and they would be perfect spots for trolls... letterbox trolls!!!! Then i felt like an enormous NERD maybe i should write a post for all the things that make me [feel] like nerd... like using brackets, not to mention my over usage of ellipsis, or the fact that i know what those are called :/  but i digress

So the plan is to carve out some awesome sauce trolls and plant them under bridges and release my Letterboxes to the world (or at least the letter boxing community)

Since this will be my first plant I will painstakingly out line every single detail of this for my dear readers enjoyment (all 7 of them) i am quite excited, since letterboxing was practically invented for ME...Allow me to elucidate:

When i found out about letterboxing i felt like i had simultaneously been given the best gift anyone could ever conceived, and been kicked in the gut, for it had been around for a long long time and i had not heard of it. To think of all the letterboxes i missed while in cali... it kills me a little inside :(

I have always liked hiking, but at times it seems pointless. Unless i run across a really neat bird or have an actual destination to go to, then why in the world am i going to subject myself to the perils of hiking, like mosquitoes and spiders and humidity. But with letterboxing there IS a destination, the best destination Anitra could ever ask for!!!!! Not only a stamp, but a HAND CARVED UNIQUE STAMP, and you have to follow clues, like a treasure hunt!! I will admit to many many hours as a child and **cough** young adult making up treasure maps for my brother and neighbours and following the maps they made up. Like i said before this hobby was invented for me!!

My kids freaking LOVE it too, we find so many cool things other than stamps while searching... like mushrooms, they really like taking pictures of mushrooms, and once we found a Turtle(it broke their hearts that we couldnt bring the turtle home) they have their own sigy stamps and there own log books... but i keep the family log book under strict lock down. I cant have pierce coloring all over our hard earned stamps. So enough talk lets have a looksie into THE "lastnamehere" FAMILY LOG BOOK


This will be breaking a few rules... like "dont post others stamps on the interwebs", so this will be my only post of our finds, i just want others to be as excited out it as me!!

this is our signature stamps... river is due a new one cause hers says 2011

Our very first letterbox finds

letterboxing with the play group!!

me and the children got way way lost on this trip, but we found our first hitch hiker!!

Another perk is that most boxes are hidden at parks... so we go get a box and then go have lunch at the play ground <3<3<3

we found a turtle at the cemetary

Andy came with us on this one, he doesn't share my enthusiasm  :) hehe

There are more but this is all i am going to show you ;) you'll have to find the rest on your own!!

Go to http://www.atlasquest.com/ to get started!!

And while you are researching your local letterboxes, you can also do some research on Trolls... Go to netflix and click on Troll Hunter. Unless you threw up for 'blair witch project' if so DONT go watch it