Scavenger Hunt

Sundays are for family fun days,  Miss Boo has always liked Sundays as they are family days, so one Sunday with our Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt List in hand we set out on a Road Trip - no real destination in mind we climb into the Roberts Mobile and headed to the petrol station for Fuel and "Shut-ups" ( a whole other story).


The List:


Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt 2012



1. A pier
2. A clothesline
3. A border
4. A roadside stand selling something
5. A train
6. A historical landmark
7. A person playing a musical instrument
8. A person dressed as an angel or a statue of an angel

9. A fountain

10. A horse

11. A shadow

12. A maze, labyrinth, or trail.

13. A library

14. A person playing with a ball.

15. Someone dancing.

16. A bride.

17. A church, chapel, cathedral, mosque or temple.

18. A movie poster

19. An outdoor stairway

20. A swing hanging from a tree (or a hammock)
21.  A picture of you standing with something that symbolizes your nation.
Substitute Item (new this year):  If you find any of the above too hard, you may substitute a photograph of either a heart-shaped stone or a four leaf clover for one item; however, you may not substitute this item for #21. 

We looked at the list and noted that a Boarder was one of the things we had to photograph so I headed towards Chepstow and the English Boarder..........  unfortunately Biker Boy wasn't aware that riding shot gun meant both navigating and photographing (well he had to be good a one of those)  and we missed the boarder into England as we headed up towards the Forest of Dean as I had spotted the Forest of Dean Railway on the Map and as one of the 
items in the list was a train I figured that this might be an interesting one instead of a boring intercity one.

So we drove and found Park Dean, we pulled up outside the station and decided to go and see if any trains were running today, we were in luck not only were they running but there was a special event on and there were lots of trains running today both diesel ones and steam, so we sat an waited for the trains - well some of us sat others stood and willed the train to appear!

Then the toot toot of a steam train filled the air and we all got excited and then the train appeared

The the sound of rumbling tummies drowned out the train and we decided that the call of the carvery was too much and we headed across the road to the luckily named pub.... which gave us another tick on our scavenger hunt and LUNCH and sunday lunch at that 

The Carvery looked spectacular and miss boo enjoyed her's minus the meat

But definitely PLUS dessert

After the feast it was decided that we sound have a stroll around Parkdean as we had seen a sign that said there was a local church open day and as church was on our list and where there is a church there are usually angels we decided this could be a good day out and we would get lots crossed off our list, plus we really needed to burn off the calories of the sumptious lunch.   

BUT as we strolled across to the path way to the parish church we saw the twirly outside stairs (plus tiggersuit on the washing line) and the gorgeous one on the Parkdean Works building.   we couldn't decide which was the better one so we took both......

It was a beautiful day and so we strolled up the hill towards the parish church and it's little grave yard and the sweetest little angel statue you could imagine.  Once we had looked around the church and Miss Boo had signed the visitors book.


She did it all by herself, and wrote that she thought the church was beautiful and she especially liked the way the light shone in through the windows.








As it was a Sunday and there was still school, on monday we decided to head home the pretty way, and as we were in the Forest of Dean it meant heading down the Wye Valley, and through 
Tintern.  Well it would be criminal not to make the joke........................






T'int an Abbey - Yes it is Big church look

Where we finished the Sunday in the most perfect way with a cream tea for me a pint for Simon and friends to play with for emily, whilst watching a local Cricket match so we got two more things off our list someone playing with a ball and a shadow.....

me and my shadow of me taking a picture of my shadow, well i thought it was clever.  But we left the bets till last as we came down through Chepstow a different way this time past the Race Course - we noted that they had put in a new roundabout and on the round about was a horse - we decided that NO-ELSE would have a horse like this one....................