We had beautiful weather on Friday night, a small camp fire and Carrie brought her grill for cooking! Liz and Tracy, both had a camper and RV up the lane a ways. Martha was in a tent, Carrie, Meme and I were sleeping in our 'red neck RVs'. "AKA - our vans!" It was awesome. Okay, for most of us it was awesome! Melinda whined quite a bit on Saturday about the beagle and the FULL MOON from the neighboring tent. Since Carrie, Meme and I were sleeping in our vans, it didn't bother us at all. We didn't hear a thing!
Saturday it rained ALL DAY!! It was pretty miserable outside. Luckily it was suppose to stop in the late afternoon. Amazingly enough, it did! The weatherman finally got it right for once! About 3:30, no more rain! So, off to the camp site and a trip to 'town' for pizza!!! As we were waiting for the pizza joint to open, Michele found a Geo Cache for us to look for. Unfortunately, we never found it, but we were interesting in trying again.
The pizza doors opened and Liz, Betsy, Michele P, Martha, Bill, Meme, Carrie and Jill FINALLY decided what kind of pizza to order. As were waiting for our food, the conversation came back to GEO Caching. Michele had tracked down a 'night time' one the evening before and asked if we'd be interested in going. OF COURSE WE WERE!! Michele told us to call her around 7:30 and we'd go find it.
We finished our pizza and headed back to camp. Melinda had a tent malfunction and decided to head into the city to get a hotel. Tracy was in town now as well. Jill was now in a tent, Bill had joined us with his own 'red neck RV' and we started a wonderful fire. It was rather chilly and we all had sweatshirts and coats. Jill decided it would be nice to toast her foot over the fire since they were a bit chilled. We were fine with that since we didn't have any marshmallows (Tracy had them) or pokers...(they were locked in Tracy's trailer).
It was finally time to call Michele! Carrie, Michele and Meme had flashlights and Jill had a head lamp! I had my flip. Michele having found this cache the night before, lead us to the starting stop and turned us loose in the woods. LITERALLY!! You begin by scanning the area with your flashlight, looking for a reflector on a tree. They are little reflector tacks. You follow these tacks to the treasure! Into the woods we went.
Apparently the conditions had changed in 24 hrs! With all the rain during the day, we now had streams of water and a running creek to cross. We made it into a clearing and spotted more reflectors in another wooded area. It was just a few feet in and the "X" was located!! Looking at the base of a tree, Carrie located the Cache box. After playing with the latch, she showed us the prizes inside! We were leaving a quarter that we'd found at the camp site, so, we could have taken something. I was eyeballing the plastic Mammoth, but honestly...what would I do with that! So, we decided to just sign the log, (Everyone that locates the Cache is suppose to sign it) and left it intact, plus one quarter. Carrie signed it SmoothSailin.
See our Video below!
As luck would have it, we ended up by the restrooms.
The perfect location before heading back to camp!
The perfect location before heading back to camp!
Caching was fun, and I'm sure I'll be looking for more in the future.
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2 comments:
Did you hear Meme's mom say there is a key to a Mini Cooper in a cache in a state park somewhere in Iowa? It's part of a magazine promo.
How many Iowa state parks are there?
It really does seem like fun to do that. I would prefer daylight however. Good job for not letting anyone get lost!
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