Geocaching

6/16/08

Tonight for family home evening we tried the hot new rave of geocaching!! Lil O was very excited because he had already done it for a scout activity and was anxious to teach us. His enthusiasm spilled over to the rest of us. But first we had to find the GPS. We knew it was somewhere in Oscar's hunting stuff. We knew after looking in the box Oscar thought it was in and not finding it that this was going to take some time. Lil O and I looked through all the hunting boxes upstairs in the storage room, while we are sweating to death and getting headaches! We didn't find it so we just waited until Oscar got home. When he did he went through all of the boxes and we even looked in the safe. I started looking through a couple of things in the garage, but Oscar finally found it sitting on a shelf in the shop! Hurray! So after that couple hour detour, Oscar took a couple minutes to re-educate himself with the GPS.

We decided to do the treasure hunt (that's what we told Parker and Mason it was) that Justin and Rebecca Bledsoe put together over in the meadows. We hadn't done one before, I remembered Rebecca talking about it, and it was close enough we could ride our bikes. So we printed the directions/clues and loaded up the family!

Here we are starting our treasure hunt.

Looking for the 'clue'

Arguing with Zachary about what I don't remember, but we were starting to get cranky at each other because we were hot. You may never forget how to ride a bike, but you sure do forget what hard work it can be. :)

We were having fun for the most part. The 3rd clue had us a little baffled. Lil O and I told Oscar to do a certain thing to find the next clue but he thought differently. We tried his way and it didn't work. While we are sitting in the middle of the neighborhood deciding what to do, who should drive up? The Bledsoes of course. Justin explained to Oscar very politely he had gotten it wrong, while Lil O and I were teasing saying 'I told you so'. So back to the third clue and this time we figured it out in a jiffy! We rode straight to the jackpot!

Good thing too because we were out of water and half of us were very grumpy, me included.

Since we are still in the potty training stage we HAD to stop for a potty break. :) (Tell this story another time).

We had a fun time and look forward to going again. Our goal is to teach the boys how to read the GPS. This time dad was in control of it and showing us what he was doing, next time someone else will be in charge. Thanks Rebecca for your info on this new sport *wink*