Geocaching

Once again everyone at our house was sick this weekend. Kathryn has had a fever and sore throat for 3 days and been miserable. She still doesn't like to be slowed down though. She is unhappy being told to rest and watch a movie and she wants to play with her friends. I have also had some of what Kathryn has had, but mostly I think it's a sinus infection. I still suffered through work because what are my choices. It was a little embarassing when patients asked me "are you sick?" "do you have allergies?" "looks like you've got a little cold". I did look miserable. Chris is still suffering with back pain and even though he is having a really hard time like Kathryn, he doesn't like to slow down. So this weekend we had to get out of the house and instead of just going for a drive we decided do do some Geocaching. If you are uncertain what that is watch the video below.




We went a few times last summer and we went once with Renn and Keira. Keira is a real pro at geocaching and used to go every weekend a few years ago so she taught us some tips. Chris has a hand held GPS that he downloaded all the coordinates on for certain areas. We let Kathryn hold it when we are out of the car and walking and she just follows the red arrow until we get within a few feet and start to search. Jack wasn't really sick this week end but suffers from genuine laziness and we had to force him and his pillow, blanket and book into the Suburban to come along. We stayed close to home, we were within 3 miles of our house the whole time and went to about 7 places. It was fun because we found parks we didn't know existed. Geocaches cannot be hidden on private land. The first place we went we didn't find the treasure because the area we went to had recently had all the trees cut down so we think the treasure was lost. Actually we only found 3 of the geocaches. I said to Chris "it's OK because we are outside with our kids discovering new areas and having fun!" He said "you can keep telling yourself that's what it is about but really it's about finding the geocache." Oh well. Our favorite place we went was a trail called "Moose Can Gulley" it was right in a suburban area and it was a large undeveloped park many acres long and very hidden. We looked for two geocaches there and didn't find either, but the park was the real find. Chris and Jack can't wait to go back with mountain bikes and check out the trails. At one point while walking Chris and Jack were far ahead of Kathryn and I and we couldn't see them. We heard Chris yell and I said to Kathryn "I hope dad isn't getting attacked by a mountain lion" and Kathryn said "I think Jack will save him, Jack is our hero!"
PS: we didn't see any mountain lions.