Ginna has been suggesting that we try Geocaching for a while now and today we finally did it. If you don't know about Geocaching, you can read up here.
We decided to start off with one near our house. Turns out, there are a whole bunch near us.
After we found a suitable geocache, we downloaded the location and mapped it out.
The wind was really strong and cold plus Ginna was pretty tired, so we decided that just Max, Dad and Sultan would go on this first adventure. We drove down to the Galisteo Basin and began hunting for the treasure.
Fortunately, my bike GPS is pretty sensitive and we got close to the cache in no time at all. Once we were sure we were really close, we got down on our knees and Max found it under some bushes.
He was pretty bummed that the cache wasn't actually treasure, but rather a little marker in a rusty can. Still he was excited to have found something. We celebrated as if it were treasure.
It was too cold to stay for long, so we ran back to the car. Even Sultan was excited to jump back in.
The quick drive home provided us with another typically beautiful New Mexican sky. In this picture, you can see our neighborhood on the left. Pretty scenic huh?
The boys had a good time riding in the back. Next time we'll make sure everyone gets to come treasure hunting.
4 comments:
I love this!!! I've been wanting to take The Native's geocaching for quite some time as well.
That coat (the hat specifically) of Max's just cracks me up!
WOW, is that a Max haircut I see? Did he get it cut?????
Geocaching looks fun. Back when I was a younger scout we didn't have much of that fancy doo-dad technology that's around today. We had to find all of our geo-whatevers with toothpaste and orange peels. Uphill, both ways.
I've always been intrigued by this. And I'd have been disappointed that there wasn't any treasure, too. Maybe some day I'll make my own geocache point and put a tiny treasure in it, and restock it every so often.
But the day looks too cold for ME, boy.
oh we LOVE geocaching!!! blake had a geocaching birthday party last spring. he has his own cache and started a travel coin and travel bug! it is so cool to watch his coin and bug travel from place to place.
we also did a geocaching easter hunt last year. oh. that was a blast.
welcome to the wonderful world of geocaching you guys!
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