Mood:  cool

In fact, it's been back since Thanksgiving Day!

Many of you have read about John Allen's and my experience with Vision Forum's Jamestown400 treasure hunt. Well, alas, it doesn't appear that VF is going to have another big hunt again this year. But, I found another treasure hunt that, while maybe not as detailed as the VF hunts, is still fun and educational. Thanks USA is an organization started by two sisters (when they were preteens at that!) that raises scholarship money for children and spouses of our brave men and women in the military. One of the ways that they raise money is with their annual treasure hunt. It always starts on Thanksgiving Day and runs through the summer of the next year. Their website gives this description of this years hunt:

           This year's treasure hunt focuses on the fascinating histories of Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota Oregon, and Rhode Island along with the histories of the U.S. Air Force and   U.S. Marine Corps and the history of ThanksUSA.We will tease you, bend your mind and coax you through crosswords, wordokus, word searches, kakuros, anagrams and more as you seek to find the key at the end of each chapter to unlock that chapter's treasure chest. We encourage students, families and individuals to jump into the chapters and learn important historical facts and concepts in a fun but challenging way in hopes of  winning this year's fabulous educational and technological prizes. The clues and puzzles were generated by  several teachers and supporters of ThanksUSA, including two of our past treasure hunt winners and one of our scholarship recipients!

You can register as either an individual or as a youth or school (including homeschool) group. Each hunt is divided into twelve chapters. If you register as a youth or school group, you have to have four chapters done every  three months (the first deadline is Feb. 20). They then do a drawing of everyone who submitted the correct answers for some great prizes for your organization. If you register as an individual, you have until next Sept. to do all 12 chapters. Prizes this year include $1000 gift certificates for the group winners, and laptop computers for the individual winners. The Grand Prize winner gets a $10,000 treasure chest! It's all free, but they do encourage you to donate to their organization. The hunt can be done entirely online or you can print out their puzzle book and send in the answers. Either way, it's a lot of fun and it's for a good cause. Check it out and do it as a family!

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