Treasure hunt

Our local toy store, Scooter Girl Toys, ran a Pirate Treasure Hunt last week. There was a map with 14 riddles and 14 spots around Roncesvalles marked. We had to visit all the spots, figure out which riddle matched the spot, and fill in the answers. Everyone who turned in a completed map was in a drawing for a prize!

Well, we traversed the neighborhood, the park, and the lakefront and learned lots of new things. Like: Two giant granite blocks in High Park are there because Irving Burman was commissioned to make a sculpture; he ordered the two blocks, then forgot what he wanted to make out of them! So they are still there. And: Castle Playground was burned down by arson a few years ago! We also found a bike park we didn't know about at all, with lots of ramps and dirt mountains. Eddie liked to sit and watch them do jumps.

We turned in our map, and yesterday we heard that Eddie was one of the winners! He won a little Playmobil police station. It comes with a cop, a robber, and accessories, and folds into a little box which locks to keep it safe from little brothers. He likes it a lot.

Hooray for pirate treasure!