National Curiosity Day

National Curiosity Day was on September 25, 2010. I don’t know what the history of National Curiosity Day is but I knew I wanted to be a part of it.

I learned that curiosity has its own definition to each person. To me curiosity meant discovering something new, trying something I have always wondered about and being a little more adventurous than usual. For others, it sometimes meant venturing into something you thought you might dislike but were willing to try and for another it was just fun to participate and to start thinking slightly differently. All great goals for the day.

For my National Curiosity Day, we ventured out to try geocaching. Geocaching is pretty much high tech treasure hunting. You go online and there is a wealth of geocaching communities.

We drove to the general area of our geocaching coordinates, we wandered around with our GPS trying to match the coordinates and discovered a giant tree was where our exact coordinates were located. We climbed under the tree and looked carefully, we discovered some shells that seemed a bit odd. Normally, in a geocaching adventure there is a small tupperware container to be found with a treasure, a log or some new information, but alas we didn’t find our tupperware…we had a lot of fun looking for the exact coordinates but sadly I felt a little bit of failure and will surely attempt this again.

Also tried new bubble tea and ordering Persian take-out for dinner. Food curiosity is always a treat 🙂

What a great first National Curiosity Day for me! Looking forward to next year!

I also encouraged others to go an try something new:

“On Sat., for curiousity, i went to the “Colours of the Spectrum” event at Art Metropole, there I made a rainbow of my colours. On to CAMH celebrating 9 plaques erected to honour inmates unpaid labour next – the secret handshake gallery…lastly 918 Bathurst Street Arts Centre… Curiousity got this cat and so i had to scat” ~ Honey Novick, Literary Director of St. Clair Artwalk