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A Christmas Story LbNA #21327

Owner:Flotilla the Hun
Plant date:Apr 9, 2006
Location: Kennsington Metro Park
City:Brighton
County:Livingston
State:Michigan
Boxes:1
Found by: Plymouth Seekers
Last found:Sep 1, 2018
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFOF
Last edited:Apr 9, 2006
You will need to research the answer to clue (A.) before you start.

Christmas was on its way! Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas around which the entire kid year revolved. Its 1940 in northern Indianas' small town of Hammond and 9 year old "Ralphie" Parker yearns for just one thing for Christmas. The Holy Grail of Christmas Gifts! The Red Ryder _____ (A.) shot range model air rifle with a compas in the stock. When Ralphie asks his mother for the treasure for Christmas, he is met with the classic mother BB gun block "You'll shoot your eye out" That deadly phrase uttered many times before by hundreds of mothers was not surmountable by any means known to kiddom.

Next, Ralphie tries to write his teacher, Mrs. Shields, a theme about his Christmas wish. She give him a C+ and writes "You'll shoot your eye out" on his theme paper. In desperation, Ralphie remembers Santa! Surely, he will help Ralphie procure his hearts desire. After waiting in a huge line, Ralphie almost forgets what he wants to ask Santa. Finally he blurts it out and the Jolly Old Elf tells him "You'll shoot your eye out kid!"

OH NO! How will Ralphie get his gun? Will he shoot his eye out? And where in Italy is Fra Gi Le? Can you help Ralphie? Get out your decoder rings and lets go find
A Christmas Story Letterbox!

Start by heading out in the "Olds" to Kensington Metro Park off I96 just east of US23. Begin at the Nature Center but don't get a flat tire. You don't want to utter the F word in front of the Old Man and get your mouth washed out with soap! Remember to leave the Bumpus Hounds at home, there are no dogs allowed on this trail.

Look for the trail that is Rudolphs' favorite. Follow this over a boardwalk. Next cross a bridge and keep following the trail of Dasher & Dancer. Before you cross the second boardwalk, look for the Stream Bank Prowlers: Racoons grab crayfish, muskrat haul water plants, but who hunts the shallows for fish, frogs & muskrat?
________ (B.)

Cross the 3rd & 4th boardwalk. On your right is a sign about brush piles. When you come to the place where the trail splits again, if the sign had a fox and a hawk on it take the Swamp Short Cut. If it was a pheasant and a rabbit stay on the original trail. Cross the 2nd bridge as the trail curves toward 310 degrees. On your left look for "The Food of Birds" How many are pictured? _____ (D.) Cross bridge # 3 and the trail splits again. If A + D > 210 stay on the original trail. If A + D < 210
go north along the fox trail.

Go uphill following the trail past a meadow on your left and watch for Donner, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Prancer & Vixen grazing in the field. The gorge will be on your right as you top the hill. Stay on this path until you find a spot where the trail dips and water could wash over the road during a heavy spring runoff. Look due north for a 12 ft stump. Standing behind this stump find a moss covered rock at (D X 10) + A = _____ degrees. Continue in that direction following the path of rocks toward a big 3 trunked tree. Stand at the base of this tree in front of the slab of pink granite. Look to 75 degrees. Take the number of letters in B X 2 = ______ steps over a Y trunked tree that is lying on the ground. Look very carefully in the crook of this tree. Watch out for Scut Farkus and Grover Dill as you stamp in and rehide the prize!

Remember exactly how this "Box" (it has an unusual shape) fits its hiding spot and how the log book & stamp & ink pad fit into the "box" - its tight but it does fit so please remember how it goes.

You can back track now and go the way you came in or you can continue on this trail to the chickadee loop - go ahead I triple dog dare you! Either way its back to the parking lot to jump in the "Olds" because after all some men are Baptists ... others Catholics, my father was an "Oldsmobile Man" and so am I.