Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

When the rain decided to take a break on Tuesday last week, my friend Nicole suggested we go letterboxing.  What is letterboxing you might ask?  That's a great question because I didn't really know either.

A little bit like geocaching, how letterboxing works is someone hides a little box somewhere out in the world and they leave clues online of how to find said box.  Inside the box is usually a stamp along with a booklet of paper.  When you find the box, you stamp the booklet with your personal stamp you brought along and then if you're really into it, you can stamp your own book with the box's stamp.  Apparently the hardcore people make their own stamps but we used a generic Christmas one I found lying around the house.

Inside one of the boxes

Nature

There's a nature park close to our houses and we found a series of clues around the area so we spent a few hours walking around the forest looking for boxes.  Most of the boxes were fairly easy to find with the exception of two.  I'm pretty sure someone decided to ruin the fun and removed those two boxes.

Nicole found one!

In other news, my sister Amanda came down from Seattle to visit for a few days.  That's always fun!

Also, Planet Granite officially opens a week from today!  Although it's probably going to be crazy busy, I'm really excited!  If anyone is interested, we are doing free day passes, gear rental, and classes for opening weekend if you want to do some climbing and learn how to belay for free.  I finally got to climb a bit at the gym and it's amazing! 

Hope all you Portland people are surviving the wind!

That's all for now.  Bye.