Shakamak & Event Stamps

Shakamak State Park 

About 2 weeks ago, my boxing buddy and I went back to Shakamak State Park.  We attended an event there in May but only found half the boxes.

I dropped the kids off at school, got gas, picked up G-MA, and we headed north to the park.  Shakamak is about 2 hours away.  We had talked about going back a few times but had to wait for good weather.  We ended up finding 33 of the 37 boxes we looked for.  I left a hitchhiker and G-MA gave me a few that she had.

Western Event Stamp

Teacup and mudflinginfools are hosting a western event and asked for stamps.  I carved these three and I'll be sending an older stamp.  They asked that we wait until after October 1st to send them.  I need to get them packaged up and in the mail before they get burred and I totally forget :)

Walk in the Park Event

Lily pad selfie before stamping the lily pad box

We had a great time at the Inaugural Walk in the Park event.  This is supposed to be an annual event at different state parks around Indiana.  G-MA picked up me and Daddy's Favorite Princess at 7 am and we made the 2 hour drive north to Shakamak State Park.

It had been a long time since I had been here.  The first part of the morning was wet but the trails were beautiful.  There were dogwood trees blooming everywhere along with wildflowers.  We also saw a few areas with lily pads.

Beautiful Park

We checked in at the cabin, dropped off our food & table tops, and hit the road.  Since it was sprinkling, we did the series of drive by boxes first.  We still had a little bit of time before lunch and stopped and grabbed 2 boxes of one series.

We went to the cabin for lunch and stamped a few table top boxes.  G-MA doesn't like this type of boxing so we didn't stay long.

Walk in the Park Event

There was one set of boxes on a paved path and we went after those next.  They were really cute camping themed stamps.  Some of the right/lefts were wrong but we still found all the boxes.  After that we went back to the car and took off on a trail in another direction.  It had some super cute alien stamps.  We even found a stamp planted in 2007!

At this point G-MA was pretty tired so we went back to the cabin.  We stamped some more table tops, exchanged, talked, and packed up our stuff.  On the way out I planted a box for Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!).  We also stopped at a cemetery where I got a box from 2010 that G-MA already had.  We ate at Arby's on the way home and I took a nice warm shower after logging all my finds.

Silly camp store sign :) 

The event was great!  We ended up with 35 traditional boxes.  I heard that some people couldn't find one here or there but we found every box that we looked for.  We left some hitchhikers on the trail and took some new ones from a hostile.  I had a postal waiting for me in my mailbox when I got home :)