I am so excited I can't hold it in!! As some of you know, the girls and I like to geocache. What is geocaching you say, there was a T-shirt that said it best...Geocachers: Using multimillion dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods. It is a high tech hide and seek game. Using a GPS, you download coordintates of the cache from geocaching.com, then go and find it. When you find the cache, you sign the log with you geocaching name (we are Connell Clan), if you brought something to trade and you leave that and take something from the cache of equal or less value.
There is another level to geocaching...travel bugs. Travel bugs are a dog tag with a code on it. You load your travel bug onto the website and set a goal for it. Then the bug travels from cache to cache in an attempt to reach the destination you are hoping to get to.
The twins and I set free 4 travel bugs in the summer of 2009. Helen's, a grey elephant named Unicorn, wants to go to Thialand to see an elephant; currently hers is in California. Abby's is a zebra named Caffien who wants to see Zebras and Hyenas in Africa; currently hers is in Alberta, Canada. I sent forth 2 bugs. One, Shalom Traveler is the first of what I call my wall series. Shalom, meaning peace, was to travel to Jerusalem to the Wailing Wall. At this time Shalom is MIA. I keep hoping some one will find it. The other is He Ping Traveler. He Ping, meaning peace, was to go to the Great Wall of China. Well, thanks to TeamYinYang, He Ping made it to the wall on 2/1/2012. There are pictures up on the website. And they are nice enough, the are mailing back my bug when they get back to California so I can release it on it's next journey.
One of the things I've used geocaching for is getting me out and walking. When we lived in Hillsboro, I loaded all the caches within 1 mile of our home. Most I found, some I didn't. It was a great way to get the girls and I out and about. Over the last couple of years it seems to have become harder and harder to find the time to get out and geocache.
So my goal for today was to make it through the day!
I do have a goal for tomorrow, I plan to get out in the sun; hopefully get some geocaching done :)
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