Buried Septic Treasure!

Lately the kids have discovered they can climb our breadfruit tree. They are a little too short to get up without any assistance, but the seven foot long 1 x 4 the housing guys left in the yard has worked out well.

Anyway, they've been braving the swarms of mosquitos out back a lot lately and found treasure! There was a little hole in the ground so they started digging. They could see a square cement box and uncovered a cement slab lid. I was inside and could hear their excited comments, "it's a treasure chest!" and "oooh, mom's never gonna believe this!" They came running to show me when they had uncovered a huge cement slab lid on top of a cement box that had been under about 2 inches of dirt and grass.

They were incredibly excited and wanted to open the cement treasure chest. It turned out to be the septic system so... not really treasure. Quite the opposite, actually.

The best part is that I didn't realize it was the septic system. We pried it open and tried to look inside, but couldn't see (or smell) anything. So we went to a friend's house later that day where they found the same "treasure chest" and the friend's parent also opened it, but the friend's parent recognized a septic system when he saw one -which is a very good thing because Everett was convinced he saw tunnels in ours and he wanted to go exploring!