Back in the game!
Posted on April 21, 2010
Warning: Geocache lingo and jargon ahead. If you need clarification, ask me, go to geocaching.com, or watch this quick video!
Got a little geocaching in yesterday! Our last cache was in November, so it was about time. We’ve been holding on to a travel bug since we came back from Florida (in October!!) The travel bug was a usb drive and its goal is to get pictures and trivia loaded onto it from all 50 states. We entered things from Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Illinois from our trip. Then I put it in our cache bag and it’s been sitting there ever since. I felt so bad, but we set it free yesterday and I hope it goes to all 50 states!
We had a great time, found a couple of fantastic hides, got a couple of pathtags out there. I’m pretty proud of our first pathtag. Todd drew a funny pic of our family and we use it as a logo of sorts for our geocaching username, Geo Doodles. A couple of friends of ours from hapkido are geocachers too. They are lucky enough to get out to cache several times a week! We’re lucky to get one day a week, we’re so busy. But I’m happy. It’s so addicting!! I’d go every day if I could! Responsibilities…ugh.
We did about 7 caches, found 5 of them. One I think was muggled. The other was a little technically involved. We probably could have gotten it if we didn’t have two kids nipping at our heels. I love caching with the girls. Ava has fun with it and she tries to look for the cache. She mostly likes the swag and trade possibilities. Lily just comes along for the ride. She loves to be outdoors and free to roam. Plus, it just gets us outside, getting exercise, and doing something together as a family. We did get a chance to go get a cache without the girls last night though. My mom had the girls while we went to hapkido, and then we took the opportunity to find a cache near her house that we weren’t able to find last time we tried. I’m so glad we did, it was a fantastic hide, completely ingenious. I love the ones that you have to think outside the box for.
Anyway, got a few pics of our adventure. Hope to get more soon!
