Treasure Hunt

In the past few months we have discovered geocaching. And tonight was our first real attempt - a warm up really at finding some local geocaches. As we will be traveling quite a bit this summer, we want to have a little experience finding them, so we started tonight in our own neck of the woods.

Jamey, Stephen and I set off to find three. And we are back home again after finding only 1. But that is a start, right? The first one was a bust completely. We didn't realize we could look for hints until we left the first site, so we may go back to that one. The second one was near an intersection we literally pass 5-7 times a week - maybe more. Here is a picture of our first find.

 

Stephen was thrilled. A real live treasure hunt. I was a little worried that he would be a tad upset that the "treasure" was an old pill bottle. But when we opened it up and he helped to write our last name - he was  hooked. So the 2nd stop of the night was a success. 

By the time we reached our third stop, it was really too dark to see anything. We are pretty sure the geocache was hanging in a tree, but as I had no interest in feeling around in the edge of the forest in the dark, we decided to postpone that search in favor of some ice cream. So no find at that stop. Or so we thought. 

Stephen talking to his mawmaw on the phone as we drove home tonight:

Stephen: "We founded two treasure Mawmaw. Two real live treasure. The first one was a secret paper map that we writed our names on. The other one was real FIREFLIES. Like on Princess and the Frog. Real fireflies and there were so many, there were more than 35 or even 38. So many, Mawmaw. you would not believe it."

And guess what, he is right!! There were hundreds of fireflies at that last stop. (Which by the way, was the woods near Mobile Greyhound Park - would I have ever stopped there in a million years? NOPE) While we didn't find the geocache at the last stop, we found a different treasure. A sign that a southern summer was on its way. 

Pretty successful first outing and we are looking forward to more.

PS - Thanks to the PASSMORE family for letting us in  on the FUN!