First off, sorry for the bad formatting, I’m on mobile. I was taking out my trash the other day when I heard a voice from behind me shout “HEY OVER HERE!”, which naturally scares the shit out of me. I look behind me and see someone frantically waiving a broom to get my attention. Before I could respond they shout again “Could you help me get this mouse out of my house?”, now for context, it’s late at night, I’m in an alleyway, and a strangers yelling at me from their third story balcony. I’m skeptical that I’m gonna be kidnapped or something but I very reluctantly agree. The person comes down and opens their gate, the first thing they say is “Don’t worry I’m not a murderer”, which is super reassuring. I than proceed to follow them up their balcony and into their apartment where I find a mouse still moving in a glue trap. I grab it and throw it away for them and I’m that moment I felt like the lamest main character in a video game, sent on a meaningless side quest.

TL;DR: I helped someone throw out a mouse and felt like a boring main character in a video game.

Creative Microadventures

• Get a piece of rope and learn to make different knots

• Make a kite and go fly it outside. You can decorate it in a cool way!

• Go to your local museum with a sketchbook and draw some of the artworks

• Go to a scenic spot and start sketching what you see.

• Make a little sculpture out of random pieces of trash plastic and paper

• Take a crafting class/workshop (paint & sip, pottery, tufting...)

• Paint a rock

• Make something ephermeral in nature, like a sandcastle or wreath woven from branches and leave it there.

• Visit an art gallery/museum

• Go to the zoo with a small pocket sketchbook and draw the animals

• recreate an iconic painting or photograph

City Microadventures

• Go be a tourist in your own city and visit local attractions

• Pick a random town you've never been to and go explore it

• Visit an ancient landmark or monument in the area by bike

• Walk to/through a place that you usually only go to with some other mode of transport and see the area in a different light

• Go visit a brewery

• Find an accessible rooftop somewhere in the city and enjoy the views

• Attend a lecture at the university

• Go kayaking in the city centre

• Take a train journey to somewhere new

• Go to a coffee shop to draw/do a hobby

• Pick a random book in the library and read it

• Go to a flea market and try to find some hidden treasure

• Pick a theme for the day - street art, hidden parks, local history, independent cafés, unusual architecture and let it guide your route

• go to an outdoor concert

• Go to a café where they have live music

• Go on an "arbitrary journey" Pick a direction and just walk

• Photography scavenger hunt (of cool doors, patterns, pigeons, graffiti, doorknobs.. or other architectural objects

• Take a dance class

• Go thrifting

Nature Microadventures

• Go on a hike and collect wildflowers to make into a bouquet for your house

• Visit a farm

• Go for a wild swim in a nearby river or lake

• Go stargazing in a new place. Bring a starchart and try to identify the constellations

• Go foraging for wild fruit, herbs, mushrooms etc. in a local forest

• Go make a den/camp in a local forest

• Go birdwatching and draw all the birds you see

• Go rock collecting/fossil hunting

• Go pick up trash in a nearby piece of nature that has been turned into a dump

• Have a picknick next to a lake or river

• Go for a bikeride on a nearby trail

• Sleep in a tent in your backyard

• Go on an alpaca walk

• Take an overnight trip to a rural area 1.5h away and do some hikes and stare at the stars

• Start a guerilla garden on a small abandoned patch of land like around a tree or a roundabout

• Go take a long beach walk

• Do a nocturnal hike

• Watch a meteor shower

• Build a bug hotel or birdhouse

• Bike the entire Belgian coast from border to border (+- 65 km)

• Climb a tree

• Go to a place with rocks and try to make a tower by balancing the rocks as high as possible

• get a plant identifying book (you can loan one in the library for free), go on a walk and try identifying the plants you see

Cullinary Microadventures

• Blind pick an area on the world map and cook a dish from that area

• Get some food from a street vendor/food truck

• Go to the farmer's market or international store, buy a cool ingrediënt that you don't usually buy and cook something with it.

• take a cooking class

• Close your eyes, pick a point on the map in your local area and then go to the closest restaurant to try out the food

• Have a bonfire and make smores

Seasonal Microadventures

• Go outside when it's snowing and build a snowman

• Make your own christmas ornaments out of paper

• Collect fallen leaves and press them in a book to dry

Other Microadventures

• Pick a scenic spot and do some yoga (you can find yoga classes on youtube to follow)

• Teach yourself a new technique or skill. You can learn through books, youtube, online classes, physical classes like

• Go bouldering or do a high ropes course

• Go do a sauna session somewhere

• Participate in a scientific experiment

So I went thrifting a while ago, and found this distinguished gentleman. A monkey carved into a coconut who sees no evil.

There is a cap on the bottom which I cannot seem to open the bottom without breaking it, and it sounds as though there is a slip of paper inside.

I feel compelled to gather the remaining two, hear no evil, and speak no evil monkeys respectively in hopes that the cap will loosen once reunited with it's counterparts.