Letterboxing in Fredericksburg
This past Saturday, Thomas and I had plans to meet up with my friend Jennifer, who lives in Fairfax. We made plans to have dinner at Fuddruckers in Fredericksburg.
While wandering around, we went and found two indoor Letterboxes. The first one, cleverly hidden in a bookstore, was perhaps the biggest challenge, due to the smallness of the store, the prevalence of customers, and the trickiness of getting the box out of it's secrete letterbox cave. The second box we went in pursuit of required clever use of the online card catalog and quick on-line visit to verify details we failed to print and take with us. :)
The best part of the letterboxes were--they were very challenging--basically due to all the people who tend to congregate inside air conditioned areas during hot and humid Saturday afternoons. We had to run extremely covert operations to ensure that actual patrons of said establishments did not know what we were doing.
With alot of heat still raging and hours to kill before dinner--we then headed over to Funland to kill some time. This is basically a huge monstrosity of overpriced games, chock-full of screaming brats. Imagine Dave & Busters on a Saturday afternoon--without the great atmosphere, fun games, and ambience--oh, about about 4x as many screaming kids. Yeah--it sucked. But for $7.00, we were able to kill about an hour playing billiards.
Finally, after we exhausted our options there--we finally headed over to air conditioned (although seemingly just as noisy) Borders to chill out until dinner.
Anyways, it was a pretty great day, full of good food, good friends, and alot of fun.
Prior to meeting up for dinner with Jen (and her sister Beth, who came along), Thomas and I spent the afternoon wandering the streets of downtown Fredericksburg. There we walked along brick sidewalks, wandered into antique stores, shared a scoop of ice cream, and bought Smurfs--and it's entirely a coincidence that they resemble us. Seriously--it is. I mean, c'mon--blond hair, cute shoes, and a kick'n bag? Coincidence, I tell you! And just because Thomas wears glasses, you think he could be personified so easily with Brainy? Do you give me credit for no imagination at all?
While wandering around, we went and found two indoor Letterboxes. The first one, cleverly hidden in a bookstore, was perhaps the biggest challenge, due to the smallness of the store, the prevalence of customers, and the trickiness of getting the box out of it's secrete letterbox cave. The second box we went in pursuit of required clever use of the online card catalog and quick on-line visit to verify details we failed to print and take with us. :)
The best part of the letterboxes were--they were very challenging--basically due to all the people who tend to congregate inside air conditioned areas during hot and humid Saturday afternoons. We had to run extremely covert operations to ensure that actual patrons of said establishments did not know what we were doing.
With alot of heat still raging and hours to kill before dinner--we then headed over to Funland to kill some time. This is basically a huge monstrosity of overpriced games, chock-full of screaming brats. Imagine Dave & Busters on a Saturday afternoon--without the great atmosphere, fun games, and ambience--oh, about about 4x as many screaming kids. Yeah--it sucked. But for $7.00, we were able to kill about an hour playing billiards.
Finally, after we exhausted our options there--we finally headed over to air conditioned (although seemingly just as noisy) Borders to chill out until dinner.
Anyways, it was a pretty great day, full of good food, good friends, and alot of fun.
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