Where is a five dollar coin when you need it?

After a fabulous dinner of Thai food we went out with Steve and Nadine again. We decided to go to a new school we have never been to before. As we parked the cars a bunch of minivans pulled up and a bunch of women with their kids piled out to practice soccer.

Mary and I decided to check out a giant tree stump while Steve and Nadine headed to the playground. Instantly all the children flocked to Steve and Nadine to see what they were doing. Mary and I only found garbage at the stump so we went to the edge of the forest but only found more wrappers and beer caps. Even behind the soccer posts and along the fence we found nothing of interest until we met up with Steve and Nadine on the other side of the field. They had found a toonie and a couple of pennies. At the time we had a nickel and a few pennies. Being competitive I wanted to beat their total so I became determined to find some toonies of our own. That didn't materialize. We did find a bunch of pennies, nickles and dimes. Since we couldn't beat there monetary total I was expecting that we found more clad pieces than them . As the sun set we met up again to discover they had found more toonies and loonies.


Nadine had found another money pit pulling their total over $5 with a couple dozen coins. Reluctantly we had to give up. As we were packing up I scoured the edge of the tarmac to try find the elusive $5 coin.