Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Super Crawler!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Ellie
Just wanted to update everyone about Ellie. Ellie is now 5 1/2 months old and a joy in our house. So here are the current stats, she is sitting up, rolling over, " playing dead" just kidding, smiling, giving hugs, and getting tickled. The winnie the pooh bear also receives lots of love from Ellie. Last of all she loves sweet potatoes.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Did you say... G-G-G-Ghost?!!!!
Geocaching!
Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica.[1]After 10 years of activity there are over 1.2 million active geocaches published on various websites devoted to the activity.
We did our first geocache the first week of November. Besides what they mention above, they also have containers called "micro" containers, as small as a little film canisters or a magnetic box that holds keys, etc. We chose our first one at the Ogden Union station. On the site, or app, cause we use our phones, we can choose one we want to do, which there are tons in Ogden!
We look at the info, usually they give you a clue you have to decipher, to help locate the cache, which is way fun, but then I found out my geocache phone app, automatically deciphers it for me. Well the first one, we had to decipher, which I figured out right away, and we got the pretty much the exact location! Well we looked and looked, but we couldn't find it. They usually will rate them 1-5 on how hard they hid it, it was a 1.5, but we still couldn't find it. Well tried another one after that, but we couldn't find that one either. As we went back to the info of the caches, it said if your a first timer, don't try the micros, cause those will be hard, which they both were micros.
Well the next one we try, will be a bigger one so we can feel like we actually accomplished it. Oh, when you find the caches, you cant take it with you. You find it, open it, log it, then put it back exactly how you found it, or you can replace it with something else of equal or greater value.
We decided any time we go on a vacation, we are going to search for a cache. We are planning on going to Wisconsin next spring, so we are planning on doing one then. It is way fun, like a treasure hunt! I will post a pic of the next cache we find!