LB Cedar Hill Cemetery CT

We saw an Event listed that we knew we would have a grand time at. A Scavenger Hunt in a cemetery. *nodding* Cedar Hill Cemetery in CT to be exact, to be hosted by the ever so sweet Brandy. A beautiful cemetery, just beautiful & so well landscaped! This was especially sweet for me as I have relatives 1/2 an hour away & gave us a chance to spend the weekend together!

The picture above is just one of the lovely markers found here.

There are many famous people resting here.

This is the marker for Samuel Colt ... Colt as in the Colt 45 pistol - not the beer, folks -

Katherine Hepburn also rests here with her family. I will not show her marker, however. Let's just say it was elegantly simple, as one would expect. I also hope that maybe you are interested enough to go for yourself.
Back to the Scavenger hunt, my team came in DEAD last! Although, I really did try to misdirect CritterLiz & her team, but they would have nothing to do with my "advice". We also did not solve the mystery correctly, either. *sigh, but not surprised*
We had such a lovely time wandering about exchanging with other LBer's, dumping & receiving cooties & collecting some great carved stamps at other markers, after the hunt ended.


Did get a few boxes outside the cemetery as well. My cuzin, a noxer & CT State Trooper, was kind enough to escort us around. On the way to one box we saw a simple cardboard sign on the road -- MISSING CHAINSAW PLEASE CALL 555-555-5555 IF FOUND" - my cuzin mutters under his breathe, as only he can do - "ohhh you fool, it's not "missing", it's been stolen, good luck to you getting it back."
The next two boxes we got were at a park. I know my cuzin understands why we box after he watched my boys in action that morning - 1st there was the game of "only walk on the stones- don't touch the earth or you are out"; then there was first one to the top of that boulder is King-Of-The-Mountain; then look for a turtle, see any fish?; Aunt Andrea watch out for that spider - etc. etc.
The strangest part for my sister & I was when a guy walked by us with a pistol out in the open on his hip. Both of our mouths just dropped! Sister says to Cuzin "Aren't you going to do something?" His response, "Nope, he has a permit, don't worry. We worry more about the concealed weapons." I should mention my sister did not see Cuzin take his gun & bullets out of his safe at home before we left the house that morning. It is just a world unfamiliar to us...we did not grow up with any guns in our house; our dad was not a hunter.

Brandy - Thank you so much for giving us a chance to create the great memories we did over the weekend - time with family & boxing! Hope you can arrange for us to do it all over again next summer!