Rock Hunting Summer of 2017

Summer 2017 in Pittsburg, KS

Our last name may be Hunt, and this may seem weird, but we are AVID rock hunters!  We hit the parks and memorials daily and sometimes twice daily.  Our dinner table is constantly covered in paper to protect it from paint and we have every color acrylic paint you could imagine.  Life at the Hunt Household is all about rock hunting.  Our puppy Sophie absolutely loves it.  Probably because she gets to go for walks all the time!  This rock and meme describe our house for the two months.

I had a wonderful friend tell me to make a photo album of our rock pictures, but what better way to blog about it and share with everyone?

 

Rocks we have painted:

                    

 

 

 

Quilt rocks are always neat.  Some we never saw again and others we saw only once.  Fun to make someone happy with our art items!

Rocks we have found:

Hollis absolutely loved hunting rocks and hiding them again for others to find!  He would even sit on a bench with me to watch others out searching. We visited Miners Memorial, Veterans Memorial, Lincoln Park, Europe Park, Rotary Park, Schlanger Park, Deramus, Kiwanus, and PSU  at Gorilla Village/ University Lake or the Oval.  

 

 
  

 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

  

 

Friends rock hunted with us:

Loved that buddies would get excited to go hunting with us!  We love it and it shows!  Our love flows to others and we enjoy sharing the joy of rock hunting. Some have even wanted to paint with us or requested certain rock paintings!

 

 
 

This is the reason we paint and hide rocks!

  

Loved getting to paint and hide rocks with this crew!

Local Sonic got involved:

One day the local Pittsburg Sonic gave a free Slush to kids who brought in painted rocks until the store closed.  The yellow rock with sunglasses is the one Hollis painted.  Then they took the time to hide them all over town and let kids bring them back for a free slush.  The red, black and blue painted rock with Sonic on it is the one Hollis found to return. One Lucky Boy!!

 

Won train tickets:

So thankful for Watco (train company) here in Pittsburg, KS.  They hid three rocks around town and this crazy boy found 1 and won 2 train tickets in September during Little Balkan Days.  We bought a third ticket so the entire family could ride!  Can't wait for that 11 am train ride!