How to have another gathering without planning it!

Attend a local kids letterboxing class at your public library just to see what they are saying about letterboxing. If you are as lucky as I was, a few letterboxers you haven't met yet will show up. Between the 2 librarians who put the class on, resQlou and her 3 basseteers, the alphabet kids and Somebunny with her sidekicks skelly and misty, we had a regular inky fingers stamp exchanging gathering. If I had realized it would be such a great get-together, I would've planted a mystery box or two there!
I enjoyed meeting so many local boxers. There was a time when there were only a few boxers in our area, but now we are starting to really get things going. And it's great! Somebunny planted a box in a place I have wanted to bring people to, but never really gotten around to. I was thrilled to go find it today and the kids had a great time playing there. If you are ever in the area and especially if you have children, be sure and check out the 'Linky Stone' box by her. Her son, skelly, has also gotten in the act and I am looking forward to going to find the box he planted. It's good to have local boxing buddies.
However that means we now have competition for being first finders. And resQlou doesn't intend to make it easy on us. She will brave firetrucks and photographers to get out there and get those boxes!!
The one family I was disappointed not to meet was the woody clowns. They are actually professional clowns and my active imagination has been picturing them in all of their clown splendor hunting for our boxes. I really need to see them in their real 'people' costumes: )
The class, by the way, was excellently presented. The children were given the etiquette guidelines from LBNA. The librarians presented a brief history of letterboxing. After making stamps from foam and bottle caps, they headed out to the library to find the box the librarians had planted. There were several parents in there who seemed genuinely interested. The librarians aren't quite as busy as our family about letterboxing (not many are, though), but they might've had a fire lit under them after meeting all of us locals. I know more people can mean more muggles. I think it's worth having some folks nearby to share our favorite places, challenge us to better boxes and just to have fun with.
We are really getting to know one another here in upstate SC!! Jwalkers, we better get moving on those plans!