After a mid-morning soccer game, which Grant’s team won, we headed out to do a little family Geocaching with Miles and his friend Nick who are here for the weekend visiting. For those of you who have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about let me try to explain. Geocaching is an outdoor activity of hide and go seek where players use a GPS to find a canister. Each canister which has been hidden usually contains a log book which you sign in on and sometimes there are items that can be traded based on the size of the cache.
Jeff had heard about Geocaching several years ago and thought it sounded like fun. Then last weekend while I was out of town he uploaded a new application for it to his iPhone and he and Grant started going around town searching for hidden caches. I have to admit it sounded really stupid when they were telling me about it but after going out today on my first Geocaching hunt it ended up being quite a bit of fun. It’s kind of like a big scavenger hunt and everybody knows how much I love to play games.
Nick found our first cache of the day at a park on the south side of town near the soccer field. Can you tell he was excited!!! 
Then we headed north to the downtown area and once again Nick found our second cache of the day. This one was much larger and there were several items to chose from. The rule is that if you take one of the items you have to replace it with something of your own. I think we put in a golfball.
Here is Miles modeling the red lanyard he chose.
Nick also was the first to spot our third cache of the day. It must be beginners luck!!!
I am happy to report that I found the fourth cache. It was under this stoplight box in a magnetic key holder. 
Here’s the prize I collected!!!
We finally ran out of luck because according to our GPS there was supposed to be a cache around this horse downtown but we could never find it.
We also spent about 30 minutes on a trail in the woods near the river looking for a cache that we never found either.
Then Grant got lucky at our last stop of the day on the way home. He found the cache all by himself. Here he is with daddy getting ready to open it to see what kind of treasures might be inside.
He chose this beautiful beaded necklace.
To find out more about Geocaching check out this website. I had know idea it was such a popular activity. It’s amazing how many cache’s are out there waiting to be found.
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