Fall Break boxing in Louisville

My kids are on fall break for a few days this week.  Yesterday, Daddy's Favorite Princess and I went to Louisville to look for the new Who Killed Colonel Sanders boxes.  I have been thinking about hiding a Clue series myself and wanted to find these boxes.   We left home at 7, stopped at McDonalds, and stopped to find a box at a rest area on the way.

We arrived in Louisville around 9:30 our time and found the first few boxes rather easily.  With the route that I chose to get us around the city, in a way I thought was most efficient, we discovered who the killer was, what the weapon was, and the room quickly.  The series has 21 boxes and we found 18.  Most of the time, when we box in Louisville, we visit cemeteries.  We really enjoyed all the places that these boxes took us.  

I planted a box while we were there and we left 2 hitchhikers and found none :(  I really like hitchhikers and rarely find them.  I will keep making them because I enjoy them.  I have an idea for a large series of hitchhikers that I can use my scraps to carve.  

Altogether, we looked for 23 and found 20.  I was worried that we would not be able to find them all in one day but we actually made it home before dark.  The weather was great, even though we drove home in rain.  

Louisville Twice

Cave Hill Cemetery on Presidents Day 

My boxing buddy, G-MA, and I have been talking about going to Louisville all year.  We made plans to go 3 times and each time we canceled due to rain.

I always plot the course for our trips and I realized that G-MA had been to Louisville without us.  I was looking at boxes in Cave Hill Cemetery and saw that she already had some.  I assumed that she had all the boxes there so Daddy's Favorite Princess and I went over on Presidents Day and got all the boxes at Cave Hill and a small cemetery next door. 

Cave Hill Cemetery on Easter Monday

When I got home and started logging the boxes I realized that G-MA didn't have all the boxes there.  Oops.  So, when we finally went together we had to go back to Cave Hill so we would both have all the boxes there.

Most of my kids were out of school on Monday, I took the day off, and G-MA, the princess and I went to Louisville.  We left at 8 am and traveled 2 hours. 

We started off in Cave Hill Cemetery and the small cemetery next door.  We performed maintenance on my box and went to lunch.  Then we slowly started heading south stopping at cemeteries and parks to get boxes. 

Calvary Cemetery  

After a while we decided to go downtown and look for just a few more boxes before heading home.  Downtown was very busy and we were not able to find the boxes we looked for there.  We stopped for ice cream and then looked for one more box on the riverfront.  The riverfront park was so busy we thought there was no way the box was still there.  But we were pleasantly surprised to find it.  It was a great way to end our trip.

When we were done there we headed back home.  There is a rest area box along the way that I need but the rest area is currently closed :(

We arrived home at 8pm.  Altogether G-MA found 15 while the princess and I found 23. We found and left a few hitchhikers on both trips and I planted a box on the second trip.   

Day in Louisville

Colonel Sanders at Cave Hill Cemetery.

A few months ago my boxing buddy, G-MA, asked me about boxing out of town.  We both have all the boxes in Evansville and have to travel to get more.  G-MA is trying to find her 800th box by the end of the year.  She asked if I would be interesting in going to Louisville.  That sounded good to me so we set a date.

The stamp I planted.

I was in charge of getting the clues together and as I went through the Louisville boxes online I started to panic.  Many of the boxes were old and had not been found since 2011.  I thought this is going to be a complete waist of time and that we were not going to find anything.

I have never seen stained glass
 memorials like this before.  There are
several in Louisville. 

We left Saturday morning at 7 and arrived in Louisville at 9 (our time) and started our adventures in Cave Hill Cemetery.  We spent our morning here and I planted a box here too.  Most of the boxes we looked for we found and it was a beautiful place to be.  I was also worried about the cemetery being really busy due to the holiday weekend but it was not.

G-MA, Lil Ewok, and I left the cemetery about 1 and ate lunch at Mc Donalds.  We got lost after lunch but we also boxed in Eastern Cemetery, St Louis Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery & St Michael's Cemetery.  It was really convenient that these cemeteries were all close.

The Conrad-Caldwell House.

For our last boxing stop of the day we went to The Conrad-Caldwell House.  It is an old Victorian home/museum and the box was planted by some folks who had traveled 2234 miles from Sacramento, Ca.  It was a fun stamp and location.  And while we were there a sky writer was making a message in the sky.  We were busy stamping and didn't see all the message.  But it was interesting.

When we were done there we headed back to Indiana.  We had dinner at the Cracker Barrel in Corydon and then finished our trip home.  We found 13 boxes and had a great time.