I love to take the kids out geocaching. It gives us a chance to get out of the house and away from the computers. Arianna and J.T. went with me today. It wasn't the best for caches; we only got 4, but it was nice to be out in the warm weather.
Today we went to Morgan Creek Park. J.T. drove the GPS and I worked the camera.
This is J.T. and Arianna climbing up a hill toward a cache. They both found walking stick which they always want to bring home. They always end up in their rooms and never used again. J.T. was holding the GPS. He is good at leading us toward the cache, but has a tendency to walk past the stopping point. He only watches the distance and not the compass needle.
This is the results of the hunt. It was a small Tupperware with a tablet for signing our name and a bunch of little knick knacks and toys. We didn't take anything because we didn't bring anything for trading. That is one of the rules.
This is another one that the kids found. It is an ammo box. They are really popular with the kids because they are large enough to hold lots of goodies. After the log is signed, the kids put everything back in the box and then hide it back in the same spot really good. Usually, it is place back better then when we found it.
Arianna loves to explore in the outdoors. She wanted to climb up this gully with a lot of fallen trees. She said she wanted to act like a monkey (not difficult for her and her sense of humor) while climbing over and under the branches. While we were doing this, another group of cachers came through. They were very loud and were not having a lot of luck. It was funny; there were six of them and they were all armed with a GPS unit. Any muggle (what the geocaching world calls a non-cacher) could figure out what they were doing. This is not the way of the cacher. Muggles can steal a hidden cache and make it non-fun for others.
This was another cache they found. Someone had taken the time to cut a log in half, hollow it out, and put a metal hinge to hook the two halves together.
Liesl called about this time to let us know that she needed help with dinner. We weren't ready to come home. It is always just one more . . . all we need is one more. We started heading out when I notice that there was one more nearby. We just had to get it.
We drove up and headed out. Arianna was a little mad that they hid it up so high. She likes to find them herself.
The last one. This one smelled really bad. Arianna made me get all of the stuff out of it. She decided then that she wanted to climb into another bunch of branches.
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