License plates can add some fun to any trip out in the car for even
grown ups. Having different things that makes even some of the
shorter days go by quicker can be fun. It also means that everyone
in the car is involved in the trip and it gives the driver someone
else that is paying attention to the road as well. These are the
games that we do in the car when we are out and about and we don’t
have to go very far at all to work on any of these.
Personalized plates:
The different
personalized license plates can be a lot of fun to try and figure
out.
Popysgirl is one
that we saw and of course my comment was someone else had my license
plate. No I don’t have a personalized license plate but that could
of been the one I selected. It is always fun to make the figuring out
of the license plate into a game.
The personalized
plate can sometimes be a challenge to actually figure out. We have
seen some and even with the two us trying to figure it out we have no
luck. Of course, the plate means something to the owner of the car.
There are items that the plate represents a business or occupation or
a sport.
The personalized
license plates can help pass the time on a long drive. The solving
of some plates can be very quick and then others can take a but of
time. No matter if you solve them or not it is fun to try.
Newest plate:
Another game that we
have been playing with regards to license plates is looking for the
newest plate that we can see when we are out each time. This
actually means that we need to track the highest one that we had seen
before and then see if we can better it each time we are out. There
have been times that we have bettered the license twice in one trip
which is great and then there are the times that we don’t see a
higher plate for a few trips out. We are currently doing this with
the combination of CA as the start of the license plates here in
Ontario. Now to see when we find the CAZ? because I have a feeling
it is going to be before the end of the year as on a recent trip we
saw a CAY? As the start of the licence plate. Yes in Ontario we
currently have four letters as the start of our license plates
followed by three numbers.
States and
Provinces:
Now this is
something that I have been doing for years but mostly when on a
vacation. This is trying to find as many different provinces and
states that you can find while on a trip. This year we decided to
have a bit more fun with it and printed off a list of all the states
and provinces and kept track of all the different ones that we saw
through the summer. Having the pre-printed list makes it so much
quicker to find out if you have seen a plate or not. This can make
any road trip go a little faster for everyone in the car because you
are trying to identify the different plates passing you along the
road or even in parking lots.
By the time the
summer was over, we did from June 21st through September
21st, we had all but three of the provinces and
territories for Canada found. The summer is actually the best time
to try this because there are so many more people travelling or at
least that is what we figured.
After we finished up
our summer list we decided that we were going to keep another list
through fall through Spring and see which provinces and states that
we see through the other three seasons. So here it is the end of
November and we are down to needed to see three of the provinces and
territories for Canada again. It is fun because all through the
summer we never saw a license plate from Newfoundland and Labrador
and we have seen multiple ones already through the fall.
We are going to keep this list going until June 21st and will see how many different states and provinces we see and then will compare it to the one over the summer.
We are going to keep this list going until June 21st and will see how many different states and provinces we see and then will compare it to the one over the summer.
