Geocaching

Robert has Mondays off and for the last month each one has been a catch up day. Catch up on cleaning thre car, the house, the laundry, the dishes... But now that I'm a little better we decided to do something fun!  We downloaded a geocaching app and headed to a nature preserve owned by Auburn University. It was so much fun for us and the girls. 

You pick your destination and follow the gps coordinates until you find the treasure.  The girls pretended they were pirates in disguise (since we didn't have patches) so people wouldn't rob them and steal their treasure. 

Inside the containers are notebooks to sign and little trinkets. You pick something and then leave something. We traded wooden numbers, tiny dolls, a baby wrench and a screwdriver for a bracelet, car, necklaces and a used thing of bubbles.  The girls thought it was the best thing in the world. 

 

Rob sporting a wolverine hairdo since he hasn't had a haircut since we left our clippers in maryland!

The caches are hidden all over the world in all kinds of locations. The ones we picked were pretty easy to start. 

Robert teaching the girls how to drink from a stream. 

Our favorite find of the day was a cache that had to be signed by drawing a picture. The box was filled with art supplies. 

Then we got lost a bit on our way to the nature playground. It was the neatest park made from trees and rocks. 

Cecelia loved the little library in the tree house. 

Then we told them we had another surprise so we had to go. They took off running saying they hoped it was ice cream because that's what pirates would buy with all thier treasure. 

Luckily for them we went to Toomer's a old drugstore turned soda fountain. They got ice cream cones and were happy pirates. 

We were right across the street from the university and there was a cache there so we walked over. 

The campus is beautiful but unfortunately the cache was gone and the girls were finished so we headed home. 

Y'all have to try this you can use any gps and just get the coordinates off the computer you don't have to have a smartphone. and it isn't just in parks but in urban areas as well. You and your kids will love it! Even George and Becky have gone and loved it.