We started off in a parking lot for Fort Granger Park but headed along the railroad tracks instead. We had to count 119 railroad ties for the location of the letterbox. Carter was leading, then me, and Rylan was last. Rylan started yelling at me but I couldn't understand him at first. He had stopped because a snake had crossed right in front of him! The snake curled up under the tracks and kept sticking it's tongue out at us. I'm pretty sure it was a garter snake but since I wasn't 100% sure, we moved on after I took a picture.
We worked on counting as we moved along the tracks.
The box was in a hole in an old wall next to the tracks (it's in the center of this picture).
After finding it we headed back to the car to drive to the next letterbox.
The next box was hidden in between building at The Factory. Again we had to count railroad ties but these were part of the walkway.
The letterbox was hidden in the bushes behind the boys in this picture.
We also got another hitchhiker in the last box so hopefully I'll find a letterbox to place it in the next time we are out of town.
Our next stop was downtown Franklin to play tourists.
I had been looking at tours of downtown and noticed that one of the bookstores sells a scavenger hunt for kids that is designed by the tour company. I thought it would be fun for Carter and we picked one up. It was $11 and included the booklet, a pencil, a crayon, and patch.
Unfortunately Carter and I thought the scavenger hunt was a little lame and much shorter than we had anticipated. It was the preschool version - maybe the one for older kids is better. But Carter still seemed to have fun during it looking for things. We were just disappointed when we were done in less than 15 minutes!
Posing in front of the old courthouse ...
Finding a clock ...
Carter had to do a rubbing of an elevation marker ...
A picture of the kids in the square in the middle of the traffic circle (that was fun getting to!) ...
Before heading home for a nap, we went over to Sweet CeCe's for ice cream. One of Carter's classmates gave each kid in the class a gift card at the end of the year so we decided to finally use it.
Both kids got their usual.
Rylan got strawberry ice cream with gummy bears (and some gummy worms this time!) ...
Carter got vanilla ice cream with rainbow AND chocolate sprinkles ...
Yum!
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