Finally!

Ug! I've been trying for days but my iPad just hasn't aloud me to make a new post!

So here's what been going on....


Last friday was our last day in Gatlinburg, T N somy mom and I went out to try to find some places to plant our "Tribute to Hostess" letterboxes. Our plan was to go try and plant them at Herbert Holt Park if we could find the park, which we did after a frustrating time with the GPS. When we did get to the park we found that the bridge was being redone and so there was a small one way section you cross over. We decided not to make our way over there because the bridge looked scary.
We then had to find somewhere else to hide our boxes. I looked at the list of boxes and saw a few up on Huskey Grove Road. We went up to the little cemetery on this road and found it was too small and too new to hide any boxes. It was so nice up by this cemetery, out in the mountains. The silence was almost deafening. We found a neat box in the woods by the cemetery then we made a scary descent down the hill to the towns little church where a clever little box was hidden by an Ohio letterboxer. We then found another clever box near the begging of the road in a little "cave." When we passed this area on the way to the cemetery my mom though it would be a nice spot for a box and little did we know that there was one!
Traffic coming into Gatlinburg was so backed up that we decided to take the bypass to the National park. There was a box hidden up by this point where you could look over the entire city of Gatlinburg. We didn't look for this box because everything was so wet that it was dangerous walking around the edge of the woods that had a very steep slope. On our way out of the area we were going to stop by another scenic stop area to find another box but we couldn't get to it because of the one way traffic.
We headed to Pigeon Forge, ate lunch, and shopped a bit. On our way back to Gatlinburg we stopped at the scenic pull off to find the box. It was a very pretty area, even when went. We had to go down this rather steep hill to get to the box. My mother decided to stop half way down the hill and wait for me to find the box. It was probably a good thing she did too. I was tripping over everything. I'm amazed that the entire time I was letter boxing on this trip I managed to not come home caked in mud.
We didn't find anywhere to plant our boxes or our new hitchhiker I got fro. My secret Santa. The 5 box series will be planted in Ohio vwhen I can get them planted. For the hitchhiker, it will be released into the wild sooner or later.
And for Christmas I got some large erasers that will hopefully be good for carving and some cute little containers! What sort of letterboxing gear did you get for Christmas?

Next, on New Year's Day, I got a call from Mama Huntin Dog! She, Jeeves, and another letterboxer were out at Greenlawn Cemetery searching for boxes. They were trying to find my Internet Melody series amongst the snow and called me to get some help on where the boxes are. Due to the snow they didn't find my boxes. I've never letterboxed in the snow before...

Ok, almost up to date! Yesterday Tyrus and I went to our hair dresser to get our hair cut. While there we checked up on my box we planted there. It was interesting since it had been awhile since we were there and the tree was decorated for Christmas.

Now, today..... I have fallen to the spam! If you don't know, recently there has been some spammers showing up on Atlas Quest. People who create account and spam people through AQ mail. The first spammer who showed up managed to stay away from me, but there's a new spammer who sent me messages more than once on AQ mail today. I hate spammers.

I was hoping to post some photos but I have yet to figure out how to upload pictures from my iPad.

Well, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a good New Year!

-Catchow