Labor Day Weekend

My husband & kids in the pool.

I spent my Labor Day weekend relaxing at my sister-in-laws home in Taswell, In.  It is about an hour and a half from our house.  They have a pool, cable TV, and four wheelers so my kids love going up there.

Taswell is about 30 minutes from French Lick & West Baden.  These towns both have historic resort hotels.  And they also have letterboxes that I do not have :)  So on Sunday morning I went looking for them.

French Lick Resort & Casino  (btw Larry Bird grew up here) 

The first box that I went for was at French Lick.  It was just planted there in July by a boxer who was vacationing there.  The box was listed as a stroll (30 min or less) but I looked for an hour and could not find it.  Pretty sure the clue was very wrong.  I left that one and went up to West Baden.

West Baden was famous for their natural springs and the grounds were beautiful.  It had nice flowers, fountains, buildings, etc.  I had no problems finding the box.  The clue was very informative, the grounds were nice, location of the box was good, and the stamp was great.  I am really surprised that it is not a blue diamond box.

When I left West Baden I went back to French Lick and had lunch.  I was boxing alone and as I sat there I thought more about the clue for the first box.  Since I didn't have my kids I went back and looked again.  Altogether I looked for 1.5 hours and never found it.

Oh well.  I went back to my sister-in-laws, well I tried to anyway.  During the time that I was gone a tree fell on the road and I had to find another way to her house.  I am not familiar with the area and was surprised at how easily I found another route.

I found half of the boxes I looked for and spent the rest of the holiday weekend around the pool :)