Yesterday we received a letter in the mail from Seattle. (Guess who was in Seattle with us over the weekend who might have sent it.) It said that it was from Captain Blackbeard Pegleg Hook and that we had one of his buried treasures in our garden. We had to finish our school work before we went out to dig, so we called Grandma and Grandpa Jacks to come over and help us find the buried treasure.
Alyssa was so excited! She told all of our neighbors, and she almost had the neighbor boys, Michael and Martin, believing that there could possibly be millions of dollars in our backyard. Bu the time we had our school work finished, and Grandma and Grandpa over, Brian was on his way home from work, so we waited for him to get here, and then the treasure hunt began!
Alyssa was so excited! She told all of our neighbors, and she almost had the neighbor boys, Michael and Martin, believing that there could possibly be millions of dollars in our backyard. Bu the time we had our school work finished, and Grandma and Grandpa over, Brian was on his way home from work, so we waited for him to get here, and then the treasure hunt began!
Brian counted off the paces and we lifted a carpet to find a bamboo X laying in the dirt.
We've always had this mysterious layer of white dirt about two feet down, and the directions said that once we hit that we would know we were close. So the kids started digging...
..and digging...
...and digging...
until they finally hit a layer of white dirt.
Brian started helping at that point, and pretty soon he was scraping the top of the treasure. It took him a while to get to the point that we could pull it out, because the kids were helping him, and for every shovel he scooped out, they would knock almost the same amount of dirt back into the hole!
When we pulled the treasure out we discovered that it was full of gold and silver chocolate nuggets, and twenty dollar bill paper with "Good for one ice cream at McDonalds with a grandparent" printed on the back. No one got greedy, and we split the chocolate with the whole group. Some of the gold nuggets had toffee and almond bits in them, so I figure they're worth the most. But it's been only one day since we found the treasure, and we've already eaten all of the chocolate. We still have all those fake twenty dollar bills, though, so we're rich!
Thanks Captain Blackbeard Pegleg Hook!
7 comments:
That looks like SO much fun! Wasn't all the dirt all loose from when the "pirates" buried it?
That should have made it easier.
Did the neighbor boys go home with coupons to go out with your in laws?
I think Elizabeth has the same doggy Alissa is holding in the top picture in brown. I just found it when I decorated for Easter....sometimes when they don't go to bed I have to confiscate things.
that is SO cool!
that is awesome! Those are some creative g-parents your kids have.
I like how Brian is in his nice dress clothes to dig. he's not afraid of a little dirt.
And the ones with toffee and almonds is definitely worth the most.
NaDell, the pirate actually used a fence digging shovel to bury the treasure, so the kids were actually digging up dirt that hadn't been disturbed. he did it that way to be shneaky.
Wow, how creative! I like your white dirt.
AWESOME!!! We might just steel your idea--sounds like so much fun. And we could use some fun and some out of the ordinary around here!
What a cute idea - so fun!
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