Pink Ribbons

The Betty Virginia park in Shreveport, has a Pink Ribbon Garden. It is a small garden with memorials in stone. Just a reminder,October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and "Early detection saves lives"

Betty Virginia Park

While in Shreveport, I wanted to stamp in some of JBanana's boxes. She has found several of my boxes here in Texas and I was anxious to see what she had hidden. I was not dissappointed when we headed to Betty Virginia Park. Very nice park and very busy! I was in search of her series planted in this park. You do need to be careful in this park because there are so many people using it. I was able to stamp in Pumpkin Shine and Rocket. The third box was near a playground and they were having a birthday party very close to where the box was so, I opted not to even try for that one.
It was a really nice day. Leaving the park, we drove down to the Red River Revel and enjoyed the arts and crafts of all the vendors.

Centenary College Shreveport, LA.

PsGuru and I decided to travel over to Shreveport, LA. today to have a look around the RED RIVER REVEL Arts and Crafts Festival. It's an annual event that goes all week and is a lot of fun. I was so glad to get back to Shreveport because, there are a lot of new boxes there and I was hoping to stamp in a few of them. Unfortunately, JB kokopelli's have already gone missing. The Boxalots have a series called Forward, Forward Centenary. It is located on the Centenary College Campus. Established in 1825, It is a beautiful campus! We arrived about 8:15 to a quiet campus. I started the series in the middle instead of the beginning because of where we parked AND a security officer saw me and asked if I needed help. He was very nice and gave me directions to the Jack London Statue. Much to my dismay, I could not find this box. Here is a letter explaining the situation to The Boxalots:


Hi Boxalots,
Well, I have a story for you that is really strange. I found Drama Majorie Lyons with no problem. I could not find Jack London or Centenary Swimming. I attempted Centenary Gents, but there was a baseball game about to start so, I walked away from that one.
Now, here's the strange story, I did the walk a little different than the clue said because, I got ask by a security officer if I needed help. I asked him where the Jack London statue was and he was very nice and gave me directions. I had already stamped in Drama ML and attempted Singing Ambassadors. When I found the statue, we (my husband and I) headed to the garden to find the box. It was no where to be found, AND the bushes had been trimmed back a lot! We searched and searched to no avail and headed to Centenary Swimming. Could not find this one, but by this time it was getting very busy around the campus. We headed over to the Shehee stadium, but tried one more time to locate C.S. My husband said "What about that box right there" I looked and there in a single small tree was a box!!! I grabbed it to see what it was and read "Jack London!” He was down close to Cenetary blvd.(Across Campus) Unbelievable! I was shocked. I stamped in and took him back to the garden. We loved going around this campus. We were early and it was quiet, still and cool.

PSuguru spotted the box in a tree totally out in the open! I told him he could no longer say he was "not a letterboxer!"
We loved the location of these boxes and took a lot of pictures. This the Gazebo.


Here is PSguru doing what he does best :)

We left the college and headed to Betty Virginia park to stamp in Jbanana's Boxes.

A parade and letterboxing

I was a little apprehensive as I drove over to get Stinky Monkey and Roarin' Lion Saturday morning. I was also taking along another little package, SM and RL's baby sister. Now, RL and SM have been 'boxing with us from the beginning, Baby sister is only 7 1/2 months old. I knew there would not be any letterboxing unless it was a box very close to where we were. Baby Sister does not have a trail name as of yet, but she did attend her very first gathering Sat.
After attending a parade in Kerens, (which RL and SM had a blast and got LOTS of candy to take home), we headed to Eustace and Purtis Creek State Park (very family friendly park). We found our fellow boxers and were greeted as we made our way to the picnic table and lots of fun , new stamps to collect in our logbooks.
To the delight of RL amd SM, Katiefrog had a really nice box that was very special. She led us to her "favorite fishing "spot where we found a fishing pole and a very cool box. Katiefrog is a very nice, sweet little lady and was glad to let us stamp in her box. SM had a nice conversation with her and would have liked to hang out with Katie, but with the little one along, we just weren't able to hike and find boxes.

It was nice to meet for the first time, Cancan, Aymtx, Blue Squirrel, and Katiefrog. Also there were Barefootlucy, JbKokopelli and JR, Adam's Trail, Tx Dragonfly,Pawtrekker, Lightning, Atoy Adventurer's,and GG. We did not get to stay long, but we really enjoyed it.
All three of my little letterboxers we asleep most of the way home. I survived and so did they. Another great adventure in letterboxing!