Medallion Hunt: FAIL

It was found this morning, and not by us. We had been looking in that exact area for the last few days though. It's very frustrating.

Also frustrating: it had been found more than three hours before we even went out for our lunchtime hunt. I stepped into ankle-deep freezing cold scummy spring water for nothing.

Awesome.

We were among a few hundred people searching at Swede Hollow when people began yelling "It's been found for real this time." Cell phones were whipped out, the hotline confirmed it (again, way to update your message Pioneer Press!), and a long progression of dejected treasure hunters started trudging out of the park. We looked like a bunch of laid-off coal miners, bundled up and carrying shovels and rakes and various other digging implements. It was a pretty funny sight actually.

The people who found it just happened to notice it bobbing along in the water. It had somehow became dislodged from its hiding place in the little stream bank.

Oh well. There's always next year.