A Little More Letterboxing

Today was just so beautiful, I just had to get outside and do something fun. Ahren and I decided to do a little letterboxing. We were going to go near where my nephews live, so I thought I'd call and see if they wanted to come along. (Sean was having the day of birthday parties and Pete was watching a football game [snore]). We did a lollipop loop at the Madison Land Trust that had 4 boxes, but we ended up doing it sort of backwards, so we missed one of the boxes. The trail at the Madison Land Trust must not be used very much, because it was not terribly well marked - we often ended up off the trail and having to backtrack to find our way back. It was supposed to be 1 1/2 miles, but I think we ended up doing at least 2 by the time we were done. But all in all, it was a lot of fun. Okay, yeah, so Ahren complained that she was bored a lot - she said that when Micah and Asher are around she can usually just play with them and didn't like that we were 'just hiking'. Sheesh! But the coolest thing was that we found two old bones, one was some kind of a leg bone and the other was a skull/upper jaw of maybe a coyote or something. Ahren is excited to take them into school for show and tell. I'd take them into my class but I guess some people are totally freaked out by them (neither Lucia or Pete thought they were as cool as Ahren and I did) - and it's likely that preschoolers might get freaked out. Here is a picture (along with a popsicle stick for a little perspective) - can you see the big tooth?? Too cool!