Maple's Pirate Treasure Hunt! Part One

This should technically be called -- "Maple Insists: Maple's Fantastically Epic Super-Awesome Totally Rad Pirate Treasure Hunt Adventure!" But we told her that the title couldn't be that long....

Maple insisted that she get a "photo-story thingy." And for some reason Penny said "Okay." Why??? Who knows.... but anyways I had to put up with it. We went on that trip last week and Maple came along. During the plane ride she formulated her photo-story as a pirate treasure hunt, so that is what is going on here.

There will be many parts to this adventure as time goes on, but we thought we'd make a piratey-background for the blog and a button in the sidebar for the Treasure Hunt posts so you can find them easily. We will have other kinds of posts interspersed with the Treasure Hunt ones, just FYI.

Here we go..... Maple's photo-story....

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away..... wait, scratch that.... sounds too familiar....

One evening Maple was sitting in the living room with Mr. Weethers... yeah, that's better...

Maple was lounging around wearing her awesome custom "Alien ♥s Cow" embroidered tee shirt and grey "chill pants" from All Dolled Up Doll Clothes (as you can see in the pics below).

"Let's read a book together!" Maple said. She opened up her old copy of Treasure Island and started to read it aloud to her bunny friend.

While she was turning the pages, a piece of old paper slipped out from between them. It looked like a Pirate Treasure Map!

"We have to find this treasure Mr. Weethers!," Maple shouted, even though he was inches away from her. They studied the map. Blackbeard's Wood, The Spanish Tower, Deadman's Grotto, Smuggler's Cove, Seawall Ruins, Fort Black, Silver Pointe, and Echo Island were written on it. The X to mark the treasure location was on Echo Island.

But Maple didn't know where any of the places shown on the map were. So she started looking for clues inside the house.

"There must be something in this dark closet..."

"I think I see something moving in there..."

"Or maybe under this couch..."

"Just a little farther under... there has to be treasure here..."

"I think I might be stuck..."

Maple didn't have any luck finding treasure in the house. She sat back down next to Mr. Weethers to study the map more. "You have to go outside Maple. All of those places are outside, not inside the house," he said. He might have been rolling his eyes, if he had eyes...

"Oh, but where? I have never heard of those places...," she replied.

"Well, I know where the entrance to Blackbeard's Wood is... it is over the Craggy Hill about a mile heading East...," he answered.

"Well I guess that is where I should start then!"

Stay tuned for Part Two in the near future.... "The Entrance to Blackbeards' Wood".....
Oooo, exciting!

p.s. Mr. Weethers is from Yellow Horse Art Studio, an Etsy shop.