Another wonderful Sat Geocache! (SPOILER ALERT!)

We had a great time today! First we had lunch at Ryan's for Tyler's birthday! Then we went to capture the first Cache! It was a little tough!! Real tree means REAL TREE!!!
Home Improvement on the Range

We went to WalMart for Ty's present and then to Dunham's for Ry's soccer shoes and then we were off for the WHOLE DAY! It was great! We headed to Opdyke to get B-Lo #1 , but we did not attempt because there was a function going on at the church and we did not want to intrude. So then, we headed out through the Amish country of Jefferson County!! We say lots of Amish folk and beautiful Amish homes. I never realized how odd it is to not have power lines going to your house! Just pick a spot and build!!! The discussion was "Is there water?" I think yes....I will have to research that! (no Amish pictures, ya know!)
On to the next Cache! B-Lo #2

Yep...in THERE!!! Could have been a spider, but he braved it and took it out!! He traded a golf ball for a tiny bowling set! Mom traded a horse for a bug!

Cache Critters, Neigh Geocoin for Dorothy's Whirlwind Tour - part 1 of 3 (Dorothy)

Next we headed to Deadlights.... DNF! We think it is GONE...GONE!!! Uggh - But is was our first MOGA hides a try! http://www.mogageo.com/Joomla1.5/ Did love the Grasshopper hitching a ride!



Sooooo after searching and searching, we decided it was missing (note the logs I did not look at before making the trip to the boondocks) and off we went!
Gangplank was next!!! Way off the beaten path and a beautiful home too!!!

Then we stopped at Scuppers. Doug went out and found this one. No poison ivy for this girl...LOL I wish! :)

You will notice that we have not seen very many BOYS in these pictures... they were sitting in the van playing with their toys....LOL!
(insert pitstop and food at Ina!)
Over the interstate and on to Rend Lake! Rudder

Yardarm was next!!!

We then headed out to Wayne Fitzgerrell Cache.
It was soaked. Left a new log book!

A Place For Bugs - Travel Bug Hotel was last. It was very sad...NO BUGS! We let Dorothy go there!! Keep her moving!


A little play time for the kiddos!!!



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The perfect end to a pretty dog gone good day!!!!!
On to the next cache adventure! :)

Geocache day :)

September 4, 2011....6 GC day!!

We had a great afternoon GCing! We totaled 6 in all!!! We went to Devil's Prop for the first time. Kinda nice there. Would like to have looked around a bit more, but we had fun!
First we stopped at Williams CD Cache. You can trade CD or DVDs, but we didn't have one, so we dropped off our Gieco travel bug! Ryan also wanted his picture made by the corn!

Williams CD Cache
Next we went to Devil's Prop. I had never been there before!

We got two caches there and have lots of fun!!!! We were going up the hill and I lost my shoe....TWICE! It is really pretty out there. I can't believe that I had never been there before!! Doug found both of these!



Pinocchio and The Devil's Front Door

Then we stopped at Tweedy Bird! I loved it!! I love the little nest!! So cute!

Then we kept driving to Tic, Tac, Toe, 4 In A Row! I did this one by myself! The boy stayed in the car! It was a quick find after the walk! There is was just laying there!!! SCORE!


Last, but not least, was Kitty's Coin Stash!
This was our SECOND trip!! I totally would not have found it. I would still be in the woods looking! Dougie found it too!! I did find this great mushroom thingy though!!!! THANKS DOUGIE! :)



Whoo Hoo!! Great day caching!!!

In Memory of our Soldiers and Saliors

Found: 08/09/11
This one was a little tricky! I went back twice looking for it! The second time, it was RIGHT THERE! Amazing how you can look at something over and over again and miss the tiny thing right before your eyes!!!

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=79dacfd2-3621-4a3e-855a-74c7c0e96f34

Tricky, but FUN :)

No picture.... :(

Kitty's Coin Stash 5/29/11

Kitty's Coin Stash

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b477cf31-e176-4f3a-8a71-604af439051c

Ohhhh how I have been waiting to find you Kitty! I even went and BOUGHT a coin to trade in you!! Where are you?? Are you lost? Do you think that "manual grace" is balance??? Ty did!! He is such a smart fella!!!! Here are a few pics from a DNF! BTW.. we did find TICKS....as the webpage says and 14 golf balls! :)

April 10, 2011

Spent the day out at mom and dad's. On the way home we picked up two GCs! They both are pretty new. I am so excited about all the Geocaches at Rend Lake! We messed around in the camper a bit today, I am soooo ready to get out there and search.

Apple Valley Travel Bug Barn

We went on vacation over Spring Break and even though I "found" many caches on my phone, I only really FOUND one! It was down the road from the Apple Barn. I hopped out of the van thinking I will run down there, grab the thing and take it to the van to let the boys see! I hopped out of the van, slid down the hill...on my BUTT... and grabbed it and......BAM! Chained to the tree!!! LOL! Got a travel bug, left a travel bear and had a great time. I did not get a picture, so I "liberated" this one. I am so glad that I got at least ONE! Came back to 100+ caches at REND LAKE.... I am soooooo happy ;)