~We're Going On A Treasure Hunt~

Hunter has been big into Indiana Jones lately. At the school book fair, he saw a spy kit that had a compass in it and he immediately came home and told Dave that he just HAD to have it so that Dave and Hunter could go treasure hunting together like Indiana Jones does. So needless to say, Hunter pulled his money together (with the help of a few dollars from Dave) and bought his compass. Since then, he has been asking when we were going to go on a treasure hunt. Dave started looking for a Geocache that was close to our home. For those of you who don't know what Geocache is, it is stuff (baseball cards, etc) people have hidden around the country. You plug in the location of the "treasure" into a GPS and then go on your "treasure" hunt. Well, today we went on our first treasure hunt. We lucked out because there was a Geocache right in the mountains above our house. We had a good time hiking around, but were unsuccessful in finding our treasure. I'm sure because of all the snow. Hunter did not want to leave until we found it, but the sun was starting to set, so we promised him we'd go back to look for the treasure another day.

The treasure hunters at the beginning of the trail.

Mckell making her own trail through the snow :)

Hunter and Marley leading the way.

After a while, we started wondering why we chose Hunter to be the leader. lol. He took us through some pretty interesting stuff.

Hunter and Marley had a blast running all over the mountain. At one point, we even saw Hunter shimmying on his belly, in the snow, to get under some thick brush. I think he felt like he was on an Indiana Jones adventure. Isn't childhood GREAT!!!