Last week, my boss approached me and asked me to assemble a treasure chest, bury it, and draw a map to find it.
What's cool is where I had to hide it too. I hid it next to an old fort/ prison on an island called Isle Sainte Marguerite. The island is just off the harbor from Cannes, France and is most famous for the fort, which housed the famous French prisoner know as "The Man in the Iron Mask." It was actually a velvet mask in real life….
Yesterday we picked up the boss' son in Villefranche-Sur-Mer, and today is his Birthday. Jack turned three today and is a special little guy to Arwyn and Me. We met him when he was one and have spent a lot of time watching him grow up. So today we gave him the map and took him ashore with his birthday party and searched for the treasure.
We had a lot of fun and he was certainly excited to find the treasure. Inside the box was the left over change from the Galileo crew (quite a bit of money from many different countries), pirate tattoos, gems, worther's candies and a note from his dad.
It was a good little adventure...
A funny aside is that two weeks ago, there was a jewel heist in Cannes, France where a single man walked with 136 million dollars of jewels. It was two days later that I was sketchily climbing in the bushes burying this treasure box on the island in front of Cannes! haha
A funny aside is that two weeks ago, there was a jewel heist in Cannes, France where a single man walked with 136 million dollars of jewels. It was two days later that I was sketchily climbing in the bushes burying this treasure box on the island in front of Cannes! haha
Fantastic idea for a birthday celebration, especially in that locale. Great job on the map! Love the photo of y'all with the birthday boy. He's a beautiful child.
ReplyDeleteAwwwsome thing to do! Hope of discovery through the eyes of a child, may it never depart from us. Good job done planting those kind of seeds in this little guys life
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job creating a birthday memory for Jack that he will never forget. Impressive.
ReplyDeletePhil will never let you two go now!
ReplyDeleteI'm taking notes, this is a good one for the girls. I can think of a million nooks and cranny's all over town that would be perfect for a hidden treasure...I'll have to pick one next to an ice cream shop!
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