Day 5 Pirates of Bear Lake

We awoke and started to get ready to head to the Lake. Payton has been so excited about the treasure box that he went into Grandma’s room and decided to help himself to a stuffed animal puppy. He came out of the room and told Grandma “I will pay you for this later”, referring to his pirate coins.

The kids were anxious to go since they knew today would be the day they would dig for the treasure chest. We spent the day at the Lake playing in the sand and on the wave-runner. The kids had a blast. Payton was truly exhausted and fell asleep while riding on the wave-runner with Kelsey. While sitting on the beach, Grandpa lined up a board in the water and had an activity where the kids had to walk the Plank blindfolded.
The kids found a glass bottle in the lake that contained a note which gave them their next clue to where the treasure box was; Grandpa hid the treasure chest in the sand earlier. The kids were directed to dig where several pirate flags were placed. After digging for several minutes, they finally struck something which ended up being the treasure chest. Buried with the chest was a clue directing them where they would find the key to unlock the chest, which would be on one of the skeletons that had been placed around our canopy. The kids found the key and continued to dig for the treasure chest. It took them a while since it was large. When they found the key and opened the box, to all of our surprise was Grandpa’s spare change that he had been collecting the past two years. Also in the chest were one dollar coins and dollar bills, paper pirate money, gems (quartz crystals), and gold (fool's gold). The kids started chanting in unison, "we are rich, we are rich...". We told the kids that they needed to wait until we were back at the cabin to count and divy up their loot, they were so excited that they could hardly wait. When we returned to the cabin, the kids gathered around the table and all participated in counting the money, each had a different way that they thought we should count the money. While counting the money, they had several funny comments, such as, "wow, Grandpa must be poor now, we have taken all of his money”, “now we can buy anything that we want at the dollar store”. Riley responded, “oh no, now we can buy the dollar store.” When finished, we were surprised to find $362.00 in the treasure chest. Split 6 ways the kids got $60.00 each.

We ended the evening with a piñata. Payton was so thrilled he walked around with the stick saying “I will break it open.”

Evening time Grandpa gave each family a pirate blanket and the kids sat next to Grandpa and watched the movie Pirate’s of the Caribbean.