Friday, March 30, 2007

Success!

We found THREE caches today! It may not be much by experienced cachers' standards, but for us newbies with little 'uns in tow, it was a banner day!

I took Elf and Taz back to the park where we were last night and found it in just a few minutes. The GPS was right on! And it was right on last night when we stood NEXT TO the cache repeatedly, scratching our heads because the GPS said it was RIGHT THERE, but we weren't looking for a micro-cache so we didn't see it. There was no loot, but Elf signed the log for us and it was a thrill nonetheless. We stayed and played on the playground a bit, then headed on.

We stopped on the way to see Brew Guy at work for lunch at another location. This one was a parking lot cache. That's right, there are even ones hidden in parking lots. This one was in the lot of the grocery store we shop at regularly and we never knew it was there. I think that's part of what is so much fun about this game. Finding each cache is like being in on a little secret. This one actually had a few goodies in it, so we took a souvenir and left some trinkets behind. Elf is VERY proud of her carabiner shaped like a dog-bone. lol

When BG got home, we headed out again! Stopped for a quick bite and headed to another park. It was a place we've driven past countless times and never visited before. That's another thing I like about this whole deal. It's like being a tourist in our own home town. We're actually SEEING places we look at daily, but never notice.

It was a gorgeous park, overlooking the river, with a pavilion and a playground and the coolest sculpture. Not to even mention the cell phone tower disguised as a tree, complete with half a dozen BIG birds roosting in it! We think they were eagles. Do eagles even live in the Midwest? Well, we know they were big arsed birds! We found the cache, grabbed a travel bug to take to the next cache (or maybe up to Cleveland with us), and fixed up the cache a bit. Some of the items were damp, so we put them in some extra baggies I had in our pack. And Elf and I engaged in some CITO (Cache In, Trash Out). It's a wonderful caching motto. Cachers take the initiative to clean up the area surrounding the cache by picking up trash, etc. I explained to Elf, it's sort of like saying thank you to the park for hosting the cache.

It was a great night. I got some cool photos, too. It made me realize that my next hobby will likely be photography someday down the line. Not that I have any particular talent for it, but I do have a really good time behind a camera.

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