Geocaching!!!

In the midst of all the fun this last weekend I ended up picking up a new hobby, Geocaching. If you have never gone it is like a grown up version of hide and seek. People hide caches in many different locations and then put their coordinates online. Then if you have a GPS navigator you can get the coordinates and the hunt is on. Some of the caches are pretty tricky and even contain puzzles or riddles that you have to figure out in order to find the cache. Once you find one there may simply be a piece of paper for you to log that you found it or there may be small trinkets. You may even find collectible coins or travel bugs that are meant to be moved from one cache to another. If you want to know more visit www.geocaching.com.

On Friday the 22 both of my brothers, my dad, my two nephews, my niece Janae, my parent's two foster girls, and myself all joined in on the adventure. It was so much fun traipsing through different parts of Claremore and hunting for our "hidden treasure." Our last cache was a multiple, meaning you had to find 4 other caches to gain access to the actually cache. As we started down the trail that was going to take us on a 1.5 mile trek, we heard thunder in the distance. We decided to forge on and just barely made it to the final cache before it started pouring down rain. We had to hide out for a while in a greenhouse that was near by.

Our first find of the day!

Eli needed a break from all the walking so my dad gave him a lift.

We saw a deer and her two fawn as we were coming up on or first stop of the multiple cache.

Brian and Janae on the hunt for the next clue.

All of us crammed into the greenhouse. Thank goodness the storm blew by pretty quickly. Though we still got pretty wet on our way back to the cars.


I had so much fun that I decided to purchase my own GPS navigator. Today I went Geocaching on my own around Lake Fayetteville. I managed to find two. There was a third one I was going to try for but there were to many other people around. Plus where it was located it would have looked like I was trying to search some peoples cars. So I am going to try for that one later in the week.