Monday Adventures: Geocaching

Katie will be 7 months in a few days and we can't believe it.  She is getting to the age where she enjoys getting out and doing things.  Rich is off on Sundays and Mondays which is nice because there is hardly anybody out on mondays so we can go to the zoo, park, etc. and it's not very crowded.  We decided it was time to start building some memories!  This week we decided to go geocaching.  Geocaching is a "real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. You navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location."  Here's the website http://www.geocaching.com/guide/default.aspx  This was our first geocache hunt so we decided to start simple and stay as close as possible.  Luckily someone had put a geocache on the trail that runs right next to our neighborhood.  It was a beautiful 70 degrees outside...perfect weather and Katie loves going on walks!

Daddy strapping Katie in.

She's ready to go

We started heading down the trail...this is the part Katie and I go to on our daily walks

This was the location.  We parked Katie in the shade and started looking for the geocache.  We had no idea what the container would look like.  I was looking on the ground and walking around the tree.  Rich spotted the geocache...

It was attached to the tree branch...

You can tell Katie was very excited about finding the geocache...

We opened the geocache.  Inside was a pencil and a log book.  There are different types of geocaches but this one was the simplest kind.  You just sign a log book.  There were signatures from Mustang, OK and KS. 

We signed our name and started heading back down the trail.  It was a gorgeous day...there were tons of wildflowers blooming and rabbits were hopping around all over the place.

We'll definitly do another geocache.  There are a lot in our area especially around the lake.