We left Sunday morning to visit some parks for the kids in Rochelle, IL. There is also a letterbox in a museum that we were hoping to locate.We visited a few parks, ate our picnic lunch & found the museum box...then headed towards DeKalb to find a few more boxes. Matt was thrilled to find his first "Holy Grail" series box. We hyped up the next box which was in a pet store...we used the pets at the pet store as bribery material for quite a while. When we got to the store, there were no pets! Major bummer. Matt felt so bad that he bought the kids some cookies...only to be informed that the cookies weren't human treats! Didn't matter to the kids - they ate them anyway! Matt & I are still shaking our heads about that stop!
We drove to Genoa, IL to find an indoor box and then went in search of dinner. Looking on a map (after dinner), we were shocked to see how far east we had traveled! While the title is a bit misleading (we didn't make it all the way to Chicago)...we were surprised! We headed back west to find a few more boxes in Kirkland. Most of these are in the woods and due to heat, wet ground, bugs & daylight quickly fading, we decided to hunt for a few quick ones. One the way home, Matt read through some other clues only to find that we LITERALLY walked/drove by two other boxes. Hopefully they will be there in the fall when we go back to Rockford!! Urgh!
Our night ended with a horrible wind/rain storm - never fun to drive in! We were thrilled to get home.
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You could have come to Gino's (right near O'Hare) for the get-together Sunday night!!!
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