Our weekend adventure was something new, something slightly odd, and something kind of hard to explain.., 

We tried the little known hobby of "letterboxing." Hagen read about it somewhere and I did some research to learn there was an inexpensive treasure hunt happening right in our neighborhood. 

Here is the idea...someone has hidden a box somewhere (usually a  public place) and inside the box is a book and a stamp. They have placed clues to where the box is hidden on a website and you set off to find the box. The clues range from simple to tricky.  Once you find the box you bring along your own stamp and stamp the book and in turn take their stamp and stamp your book. You return the contents to its hiding place. That's pretty much it.

We purchased simple field journals, printed out 5 box locations, and started our day with breakfast tacos, if nothing else our stomachs were full.

We found four letterboxes all hidden in public Round Rock locations and our way we found: a park in Round Rock that we didn't know was there, a slave cemetary, and our quota of interacting with nature for the week.

Boys loved it ...you should try it

www.letterboxing.org