Kids 50 Things #49

As you may recall there was an article in the Globe & Mail earlier this week that listed the 50 things your child should do before 12. Wanting to get a head start on the list we did something easy today and headed down to the river for a bike ride and to hopefully grab a couple Geocaches. I needed to take it easy today as yesterday I partook in some manual labour as part of my volunteer work for Rotary that included shoveling and moving gravel, soil, etc. as we helped build and fill garden plots for the local community garden; problem is I am not used to manual labor and somewhere in the process I hurt my wrist.

When we head down to the river the kids usually last for about an hour but today we spent almost two and half hours at the river just playing around and exploring a lot of the side trails. We ended up finding 3 caches on the day, we are up to 131 now; pictures of today and a few other randoms below...

50 Things Your Child Should Do Before 12

Loyal readers of this blog will by now be familiar with our 50 Things to do in BC Before You Die challenge; those of you not familiar with the list can view it and our progress here. So with that in mind you can imagine my excitement when I came across this Globe and Mail article today highlighting 50 things your child should do before they are 12.

After discussing it at great length with Cohen and Kyah we decided we should embark on trying to complete this list too. Much like the "before you die" list, we have already completed a bunch of the tasks on this new list but in the spirit of fun we are going to start from scratch. Also, like the "before you die" list I will create a blog post as we complete the tasks and cross them off the list and link the list to the appropriate blog post. As you are all so anxious to see it here is the list that we look forward to finishing...