Jenna asked me if I would go on a walk with her
and Bonnie. She asked if I could look up
a scavenger hunt list that we could do at the park. I pulled up a list and sent it to her
phone. The rules were that we could not
take something that we brought ourselves and no repeats. At least one of us had to be in the picture
with said item (as we would not be bringing any of it home) My rule was that we
did not have to capture things in order –
otherwise we would still be at the park with an empty list.
Twenty items were on the list. The list goes as
follows:
Something covered in feathers
Something inflated by air
Something made of wood
Something purple
Something rectangle
Something round
Something shorter than you
Something square
Something striped
Something taller than you
Something that flies
Something that displays a rule(s)
Something that smells pretty
Something with wheels
Something yellow
Something you can sit in
Something you use to play sports
The letter “S”
Something covered in fur
Something with a date on it
The first thing we captured was number 12 –
the park rules. I think it is the only
time Jenna wore the mask.
Jenna had mentioned that we would need something with wheels. There is a large saw mill that we could take a picture of. Only she thought I meant the mason stone which I thought she took, but found this instead.
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| 4 something with wheels |
Jenna spotted second Ave and thus we crossed the street and took a picture of #18 something that starts with S
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| point of interest: Top of street that leads to
the park where Jenna is standing is where the Christmas tree is placed each year – thus second Ave is closed off for a month. |
We did get a picture of the saw –
not for S, not for wheel, but for #20 something with a date
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| perhaps not so much a full date as just the year |
Jenna spotted the wheelchair marking on the ground
and decided to lay next to it. #8
something square
For number 17 “Something
you use to play sports” Jenna and I decided
that the baseball field would serve as the background as it is something that
many do use to play sports
Jenna saw a group of people looking towards the sky
and finally spotted the drone they were all looking at. I suggested she take it for #11 something
that flies. It is the only picture that
neither one of us were in. She has
circled the drone as it didn’t come out so obvious
in the photo
I grabbed a couple of plastic bags from the park dispenser
just in case we needed to clean up after Bonnie –
who did take a dump but proceeded to bury it before I could pull the sack
apart.
I then posed with a stump #7 something shorter
than me.
I asked if the book drop could be used as one of list items. She went down to investigate and there are some purple paperbacks
Bonnie followed her and tangled them both in her
leash. I wish I would have had a picture
of that. When Jenna tried to get them
both untangled, Bonnie decided to chew on her leash
Though we had passed yellow speed bumps, Jenna
decided the Oregon Duck rock had a more exciting yellow and thus posed with the
rock # 15 something yellow
Jenna went into the restroom to take her picture sitting “in” something. I didn’t realize she was going to choose the sink #16 something you sit in.
There were four small flags displayed behind a
very small fence. I asked Jenna if that
would work – I liked the display. She was not comfortable taking the picture
however as there was a group of people nearby.
She found another flag and used it for #9 something with stripes. We
could have also used it as either #10 something taller or #5 something
rectangle – but stripes seemed the best choice.
Jenna then found a tree barely taller than herself
and decided we’d pose with it though I thought we
could have found a more exciting background with a different (and taller) tree
She took a picture of a squirrel –
or attempted to rather. I had Bonnie on
the leash. She dashed toward the
squirrels and so it moved out of frame.
Jenna thought we could get another dog with other
walkers but they went in another direction.
Further up we got our #5 something rectangle and #6 something round
It wasn’t until we had almost completed full circle when Jenna spotted another dog walker and asked if she could pose with their dogs but got only one that has a similar coloring to Bonnie.
Bonnie of course wanted to follow the dogs as she
continued to bark at them and knocked Jenna over.
As we had not used the bags for Bonnie’s
bowels and still had three things on the list Jenna decided to inflate one of
the bags so that we could mark off #2 from our list.
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| something inflated by air |
She approached two women and asked if they had any
perfume or something that smelled pretty –
though I had suggested plants that bloom in the spring time and might be
fragrant, but I don’t know. I can’t
smell. Jenna settled on a bottle of
Pepsi. I don’t
know that I’d say Pepsi has a “pretty”
smell –
but that was our number 13.
And thus we left the park having marked off each item but the first – something covered in feathers. We had heard birds in the trees but could not see them – nor did we find ducks in the water. I told Jenna to take a picture of her skinned knee that she received when Bonnie pushed her over.
Jenna, still determined to get her feather covered
fowl took one from our front porch (no longer in the park –
rather seven miles away) and almost as easy to spot as the drone. The orange above her head is one of many fowl
that come into our yard.
Overall it was a fun little adventure.
