SOHT 2013

It was a dark and stormy night...... Wait, no. It was a cloudy and dreary day, perfect for SOHT 2013.

This year the theme was Alfred Hitchcok movies. It was cold and cloudy and we were out in the country. Perfect setting for a horror movie. But fear not! 'Twas just a bunch of letterboxers gathering together for an event. No murders or ghosts.... Well, there were 13 ghost there that night...

 Tyrus and I piled into his parent's new car the morning of October 12, 2013. It was very cold and luckily the fire was going by the time we arrived. Eventually it got warm and sunny. This year the entire event was held at Cat's place, which I liked much better. We weren't running around or getting lost this year.

This year I wore my tail to the event. People got a kick out of that and the kids had fun playing "Pin the Cootie on Catchow's Tail." Half of the time I forgot I was even wearing my tail.

 

Food. FOOD. I love events so much because of the food. People were ever so kind to label food with peanuts so I wouldn't eat them. No trip to the hospital for me! Pretty much everyone picked at the food the entire day. There was more than enough to go around. I really liked these rice crispy pumpkin treats someone made. However, it had a tootsie roll in it for a stem and I don't like those, so I gave them to Tyrus.

 The day trails were pretty cool. Tyrus and I went with a couple of other letterboxers to find one of the two day trails. It was fun letterboxing with people you don't normally letterbox with. It was also nice that I wasn't reading the clues. What I liked about this trail we did was that there were these crows at most of the boxes.

When we returned we had lunch and then went on the second day trail with Tyrus' parents. It was his dad's first time being at an event for the entire time. It was interesting letterboxing with his parents. It was a first boxing with both of them.

 

The trails were so pretty during the day. I love Autum so much. The property was beautiful and the rebuilt houses were so cool. It was so tranquil except for the neighbor's dog that wouldn't stop barking!!

 

The nice thing about arriving at the beginning is getting all exchanges out of the way so you can hang out for the rest of the time. Although, you still end up doing exchanges throught the day but not in one big chunk that takes up most of the event. I love seeing everyone' signature stamp. It's so interesting.

 Night boxing. Oh night boxing. We were the third or fourth group this year to go. Last year Tyrus, Indiana Tim and I were the last to go. Indiana Time wasn't able to make it this year due to car troubles. Oh well.

Tyrus, his father, and I were on our toes the entire time while boxing. Mother Hen read the clues while the three of us scanned the woods for anyone who wanted to try to scare us. Tyrus's father was a military cop, Tyrus is in school to be a cop and has had some training, and I'm going to be studying to be a park ranger.we all were pretty much acting like cops on a search while we were boxing. We found the two just about every time and avoided being scared. However, when we finished the trail, that's when he got me. Came up behind me and scared the living crap out of me. I spun around and almost socked him in this face. Luckily, for him, Tyrus had his arm around me and so I wasn't able to go through with the punch.

 

All the stamps were excellent like always. Some of my favorite stamps were actually personal travelers. There were a couple of trail stamps the got me on a rant about some of Stephen King's movie... That's a story for another time.

 

I want to say thanks to all that carved. An event isn't the same without stamps and I know as a host, you don't have a time to carve a dozen or so stamps. I wished I could have helped out but I didn't know anything about Alfred Hitchock and his movies.

 

I really liked the 13 ghost night trail based off a movie about 12 ghosts trapped in a house and they needed 13th to open something that led to something bad. I don't know. I want to see the movie though.

 

I had fun this year. I can't wait until next year where I will seek my revenge(muhahaha).

And next year it should be Supernatural(the TV show) themed. *hint* *hint*


If you want to see more pictures from SOHT 2013, check out my Event Photos tab here on my blog!

~Catchow