Saturday, September 23, 2006

Diagnosis; Death



I got some help with this cache from some friends.
See you had to get the codes to some medical problems and I was totally stumped.
I did find how to do it, but just couldn't get it together.
So this person figured out for me and gave me the coords.

I grabbed my youngest daughter, cause I know she is into grave yards... Oh, ya this
cache is at a grave yard..lol

It was right down the road from where we live. Never in this life time would I have known
this cemetary was there. It's very old!! There is some people that you can see do still bring
flowers to their loved ones. It's just sad that there isn't some kind of sign around to say
hey this is such and such grave yard.

It was a easy cache to find. Took pictures and were off to look at some of the head stones.
The landscape to this place was awesome. You would have to see for yourself..

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Olde Plainfield Village


Another great day to wander around Grand Rapids..lol
Grabbed my daughter after school and said lets go geoing.

Been in this area before for the Gone Postage cache, so it was old
stomping grounds.

This one was a 2 stage cache. The first stage had our coords jumping all
over for some reason. But I finally just got on my hands and knees and
really looked close for something. Well I found it and it was again one of those
amazing hides that make you go omg thats great. It was a clump of pine cones and needles that glued together then under it was the coords written on a piece of papter.. very nice!!!

Then we were off to the second stage. It was a small area so we thought oh
this will be a easy find.. it wasn't at first. We were sorta looking for the same
kind of set up as the last find.. My daughter was on the right track, but I found it.. (giggles) she says hey that should be my find..

She found the actually cache though.. She has a knack of finding the ones that
are hidden like this one was. (no im not giving it away)
It was in a ammo box, with bunches of stuff in it.
I left a Indian figurine & sig. card and took a hand held small game.

It was a awesome find and of course I loved the view of the Grand!!

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Old North Park Bridge

This cache was a history lesson about the Bridge and the park.
It was a 3 stage cache with each stage having to do some math.
Like when the Bridge was built, cost of bridge, width of plank deck.. etc.
Then you had to use different digits in different places so it all gave you a coord.

I know it sounds complicated, but really it wasn't. All the answers were on plaques by the Bridge and down the paths to the second stage.

Tracy and I did this on her day off from work. At first we were completely lost
on the second stage and almost gave up. So we went back to the beginning and redid our math.. Yep I had a number off, so we put the right one in and off we
were again. About 2 hours later we found the cache.
Lots to see while were doing it. Seagulls, ducks and people.
And of course another history lesson. It's always cool to learn!!!






Sunday, September 17, 2006

Tiki Birthday Cache for Tara



Grabbed this one after trying to do a 10 stage cache that we failed at the moment. We had to get our spirits up after that one.

Took our son with us on this one. He wasn't convinced that cacheing existed after
spending 4 hours and failing with the one.
But we found this 1 stage one and he is a believer now..lol

Took a couple things and left a couple things.