The Birthday Cache
Ken's birthday is coming up on the 10th. This past weekend he came home for the race. It seemed like a great time to do the gifts, so we presented our gift to him.
This year we decided to mix it up a bit. Ken recently got the family into geocaching. It's a "sport" in which you find containers hidden by people throughout the world using a GPS. It's a lot like trying to find hidden treasure and the kids have a ball trying to find the cache. So we used this as a theme for his gift. I bought an ammo case, which is often used as a cache container. We then filled it with miscellaneous gifts. Some that dealt with geocaching. Some that didn't.
Using a GPS I borrowed, we determined a good hiding spot in my mom & dad's backyard. Using a real cache as an example, I printed something out that looked like an official cache with the coordinates to the cache that we hid for Ken. The cache was nested in between some trees and covered up with broken branches and some pine needles.
I made certain that Ken brought his GPS with him. He entered in the coordinates and began his adventure in finding the Birthday Cache. His GPS took him right to the vicinity of the hiding spot. A minute or so later he found the cache and revealed the treasure.
Check out several photos taken during the hunt over at Flickr. You will also find many other pictures that were take some time ago but were only recently published. Starting on Page 2 you'll find the baby rabbits we rescued, Cale & his girlfriend Erika, Cale playing ball, Cade marching in Old Dover Days, geocaching with the family, and the kids playing in the sprinkler.
A lot has been going on. I've been somewhat busy and somewhat lazy. You know how it is when you finally get some free time. :) Sometimes it's nice just doing nothing.
This year we decided to mix it up a bit. Ken recently got the family into geocaching. It's a "sport" in which you find containers hidden by people throughout the world using a GPS. It's a lot like trying to find hidden treasure and the kids have a ball trying to find the cache. So we used this as a theme for his gift. I bought an ammo case, which is often used as a cache container. We then filled it with miscellaneous gifts. Some that dealt with geocaching. Some that didn't.
Using a GPS I borrowed, we determined a good hiding spot in my mom & dad's backyard. Using a real cache as an example, I printed something out that looked like an official cache with the coordinates to the cache that we hid for Ken. The cache was nested in between some trees and covered up with broken branches and some pine needles.
I made certain that Ken brought his GPS with him. He entered in the coordinates and began his adventure in finding the Birthday Cache. His GPS took him right to the vicinity of the hiding spot. A minute or so later he found the cache and revealed the treasure.
Check out several photos taken during the hunt over at Flickr. You will also find many other pictures that were take some time ago but were only recently published. Starting on Page 2 you'll find the baby rabbits we rescued, Cale & his girlfriend Erika, Cale playing ball, Cade marching in Old Dover Days, geocaching with the family, and the kids playing in the sprinkler.
A lot has been going on. I've been somewhat busy and somewhat lazy. You know how it is when you finally get some free time. :) Sometimes it's nice just doing nothing.
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