Just Me!

A few years ago, Pete found this hobby called Geocaching. He has been wanting to do it ever since, but it requires a GPS, which we didn't have. He talked about it every so often, but nothing ever came of it. I never quite understood what he was talking about, until this weekend. My parents gave us money for Christmas (the best gift). He decided he wanted to use his money to buy a GPS. So, we got one at Wal-Mart when we were doing our grocery shopping on Sunday. Again, he tried to describe "geocaching" to me, but I still didn't quite understand. His description was basically that people leave "caches" all over the world and you use your GPS to find them. He said there are several right here in Enid. So, he typed in a few of the Enid coordinates and off we went to find these "caches". We found several of them very easily and it was very fun. The next day we ventured a little farther away from Enid, but not very far. Two of the coordinates sent us to abandoned graveyards, which was kind of freaky, but still fun. I know there is no way for me to fully describe our new hobby, but we had a good time this past weekend finding these treasures, as I like to call them. We feel like little spies or something! Anyway, here's a picture of me with one of the caches we found yesterday. The cache was an ammo can filled with lots of little trinkets. We decided to take the C3PO toy and left a toy car. That's what you can do if it is a large container, but some of them are so small that all you can do is sign the log that is enclosed (there is a log and a writing utensil in each one we found). We have taken and left a number of items from most of the caches we've found. In my left hand is our little GPS. If you want to see if there are any caches in your area, you can go to www.geocaching.com. It's a fun little game! Yesterday there was someone that signed the log of each cache before we did, on the same day. We never did catch up with them, but it was still neat knowing that someone had been there just before us!

The game of geocaching is like a high-tech treasure hunt that we play using our parks and forests as the gameboard. Someone hides a container full of goodies, publishes the latitude and longitude coordinates on a website, and others try to find it using a handheld GPS receiver. Then
you can take a present from the cache, and leave something else for the next person to find.