[Rhodes22-list] Treasure Island - part one

[Lowe, Rob]

What a great story!  Can't wait for part two! - rob


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Two weeks ago our grandsons were to come over and spend the night and the
next day ,go for a sailboat ride and a picnic on the boat. I thought we
should spice it up a bit,and turn it into a treasure hunt. Carol (my wife,
hereafter known as Grandma),went to the local party center and found a
small plastic treasure chest,a lock,a bag full of gold foil covered
chockolet coins and 2 pirate rings,and two Canadian coins,gold in the
middle and silver on the outer ring.We stuffed everything in the chest and
put it in a baggie and grabbed a shovel and headed to the lake.
 There are three islands on the lake,but only one that we can get within
wading distance with Country Rhodes,so that one we named Treasure Island.
TI is about half the size of a football field. While we've been on the
beach(all 30 square feet of it),we had never ventured in any farther.We
couldn't have designed a better spot for our plan. Ten steps up the path
the trail split with a tree that had four trunks coming into one on the
right path.We started drawing the map. The next fork in the trail had a
fallen tree on the left side,duly noted on the map.Then when I could see
we would soon be running out of island,I spotted a tree with a trunk that
split into two trunks about 3 feet off the ground,and a branch that had
fallen into the crotch of the split and stuck out about 2 feet.A well
hung maple tree,if you will.I promptly named it --the tree with a
weiner--,something a 2 and 4 year old would understand.I was even more
promptly --VETOED-- by Grandma.It will be named and duly noted on the map
as --the tree with the elephant nose--. At the end of "the elephants
nose", I dug the hole and planted the treasure chest.
 We went home and Grandma drew up the map on a paper shopping bag to make
it appear old and wrinkled.She handed it to me for my approval,and I said
looks good,and then I got --THE LOOK--.Being male,I grasp for the most
common answer to the look. "What",I said.The reply went something like
this "you know your teaching your grandsons to steal". Well,I thought I
was teaching them to be pirates."I'll take care of it" reasoned
Grandma.And thats how the note(on parchment paper,no less) got in the
baggie with the map and put in
 a bottle,well,okey,a Mirical Whip jar.Pics of map and note @ bottom
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