What a time!

Hello, Family!
We had quite a time this weekend! It was very hot and humid, but we spent the day recovering yesterday and feel fine now.
Early Saturday morning, we all left with Nitrocat and headed up to meet some of her friends near Rockford. We had a great day and found 17 letterboxes! That means that we finally got to help Nitrocat reach 100 finds. She also found her first cuckoo clue that day and we were close enough to go and find the letterbox that went with it too. That was exciting!
My favorite place was the Atwood Park and Education Center. They had some Birds of Prey in cages and we saw several large owls, a kestrel and a Bald Eagle. The Eagle was yelling at us and the Great Horned Owl hissed at us. I don't think they liked being disturbed even though we tried to be quiet and move slowly. Nitrocat took our picture by the Eagle. She said it was funny because there is a little poison ivy in the picture too and that was appropriate since we were dodging it all day.
We also went to the Goose Barn, which is a rubber stamping store owned by a letterboxer named Dumpster Diva. She wasn't there, so we didn't get to exchange with her, but we did get the two boxes at the store. We had our picture taken in front of the barn door. Can you see us by the handle?
We saw lots of other great things, and Tweeter and Pinky Poo have written about some of them. It was fun to meet Pastor's Wife and Prairie Dog and see all of the wonderful stamps carved by Krait and a couple of other people.
My time here in Illinois is almost over, I guess. I'm a little sad because I've had so much fun. But Nitrocat said that she won't be letterboxing as much next month because she has to get ready for school, so I guess it is time to move on. It doesn't look like it is going to work out for me to go to the Renaissance Faire with them. Oh, well. Where am I going next?
Frankie