Pics of the hall/stairs/landing are
here.
The Treasure Hunt went very well - all three sprogs enjoyed it. Here's the schedule...
[Start in living room. First clue:]
Anubis guards the entrance to the Otherworld. Between his paws a message lies:
Read his words and he will start to guide you to your prize.
There's a Past Times statue of Anubis on the hall windowsill (you can see it on the picture page, at the bottom).
Clue 1:
Up at the top where the vampires live, 'Dracula' can be found.
Within his 'cloak' are stories - and smiles....
My vampire books are in the little bookcase at the top of the stairs. I made sure
Dracula (the Bram Stoker one) was on the top shelf - and the sprogs looked in everything with Dracula in the title
except the right one. [sigh] A little nudge and they found it!
[Inside the book, 'smiley' stickers and Clue 2]
Look behind you! Look behind you!
Where orchids beckon, the peacock points the way.
Three legs and a face - what's in here?
The next clue was rolled up inside Ken's ceremonial sake pourer - beside the orchid branch. And it was in Egyptian hieroglyphics! Kai has a hieroglyph chart on his bedroom wall... Translated, the clue read - under snakeskin (well, undr snakskin, because there was no 'e' on the chart!) I left a fortune telling fish, rocket balloons and a tiny 'smiley' padlock along with Clue 4 under Kai's snakeskin.
Clue 4:
Where half-a-fish floats at the entrance to a pearly place
Dolphins leap and fishes swim and mermaids' tails point the way -
Three baby dragons in a green and blue jar!
The half a fish is of course on the bathroom door, and there are three mermaids in the bathroom. The baby dragons were little goldfish water squirters -
Clue 5:
Goldfish are baby dragons in the East.
Now go out and find the real baby dragons -
And ask the frog!
There's a little terracotta frog by Roeg's Pool in the garden. Three sheets of holographic stickers and the next clue were under it.
Clue 6:
One of these a day keeps the doctor away
Or so they say.
Untangle the letters to find where to look!
nehbid het pelap etre!
(Anagram of behind the apple tree.) I hung a bag with three 'melody pops' - melon, strawberry and cola 'swanee whistle' lollies that the sprogs had much fun with, playing Happy Birthday to Kai!
Clue 7:
Where does the mouse live? Kai knows!
Look around the place.
Somewhere here is a way to see the world
The way the insects do!
I (not very inconspicuously) hid three plastic facetted 'insect eye' mini-kaleidoscopes near the compost bin!
Clue 8:
Now here's a thing. Inside,
Spinning, spinning but going nowhere...
If you look, you'll find more things that spin!
I was quite pleased with that one, because it could have meant spiders webs, or the washing machine, or - correctly - my exercise bike, where I'd hung a bag with the next clue and three little magnetic UFO spinning tops!
Clue 9:
Where one table fits under another
See what's in between!
Three 'maze' pens (3D maze with two tiny ball-bearings to fineagle through the twists and turns) between the stacking tables in the lounge.
Clue 10:
Somewhere a fountain bubbles gently, aiding peaceful sleep.
Amusements are under the cat!
This was the breathing, purring cat Kai bought me for my birthday: I hid three 'noughts and crosses' games under her plus the final clue.
Clue 11:
Now at last you're almost there!
The final prize lies in Shelob's lair...
I asked Kai to put his Great Big Tarantula in his den under the bed several days ago so I could hide the final 'prize' - two little books (3D Dinosaurs, 3D Body, Hand Shadows and Turn About), a crystal each, and a bag of old-fashioned sweets (sherbet flying saucers, pear drops, barley sugar) in a bag for each of them - under it without arousing suspicion.
They loved it. Jun asked Ruth for a Hunt of his own! And Ruth made the most gorgeous sachertorte decorated like a clock, with the hands pointing to 11, for Kai!
Afterwards we watched
Nanny Mcphee - lovely feel-good film. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
And finally, Ken recorded the cats demanding to be fed this morning.
Here's the RealAudio file. Turn your volume up...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 9:18 pm
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