Geocaching

My family gave me a GPS receiver for my birthday, and my brother introduced me to Geocaching. The idea is that a container is hidden, containing some small trinket and a logbook. A website gives you its coordinates, or maybe clues to its whereabouts. You find it, swap the trinket for one that you bring with you, sign the logbook, then post your experience online. Eric has been really enjoying doing this with Virginia Grace.

Well, we were pretty excited to give it a try. But we were also in a bit of a hurry, so we left before I had a chance to really research things. The first place we went to turned out to be an earthcache... basically a place designed to teach you something about that place. So really nothing to find there, although we did look for a while.

Then we went to another place. We found the main thing we were supposed to find (it was part of a cacher's "Show Me Something Interesting" series), but the kids were rapidly approaching the not-happy-tipping-point, so we left before finding the logbook. In any event, it was a fun time and we look forward to doing more Geocaching once the snow melts a bit!

2008_03_02 - Our First Geocache