Nefga's Rally Round the Campfire

Today we went to the Nefga Rally Round the Campfire event held by Legna and sOulbAit. It was an event in Palatka to hold the elections for this year's board. Tony and I caravaned down there with StressMaster, and we cached along the way of course. After a while we caught up with Caraloopy at a cache (which I found, yay!) We ended up with 11 new caches before we finally headed down to the event around 5:30 pm. In the picture below everyone was looking for a cache called Home of the Triple S by Federation. There is Tony looking under the bench, Caraloopy sitting on the other one, Stressmaster in the grey shirt looking, Hikemeister in the blue shirt and Hike Jr. in the white shirt. The other boys are the StressBoys, as I like to call them. :)

Carlee was very relieved once we got to the event because we finally took her out of the carseat for good. lol... she was getting pretty fussy from having to sit in it for so long. It was so much fun to see everyone again. It felt like forever since we had been to an event! There was a GeoPoker game, where everyone who wanted to play got a card and had to hold it on their forehead (but couldn't look at what it is). Then they had to walk around and try to make a pair with someone without talking... lol... anyway, Tony and the person he paired up with ended up winning because they had the highest combination (no one got a pair) with a King and an Eight. It was pretty funny. Here he is trying to pick his prize... (there's another StressBoy, what a ham, lol)

So, we ate, talked, traded travel bugs, logged a bunch of new coins (for new icons!!!), voted our new board members, and talked some more. I had so much fun! Carlee really enjoyed it too, I think. She loved being held by and talked to by everyone. Oh, and we won two raffle items! Tony must be good luck, because I never win anything! lol... we won a ready to hide cache, and a travel bug tag. So after the day was over, we ended up getting to 591 caches, and Lil' Sunshine's up to 87. Below is a group picture of everyone.

Here's a show of the event that Zephyrus put together. It's really cool.

Lil' Sunshine coin survived!

We left our sig tokens at a cache that we did recently called, "Canadians, Eh?", and I noticed that it was temporarily archived. So I checked the logs to see what happened. Apparently, a lawn mower got ahold of this cache, and DigitalTangent found the remnants and Lil' Sunshine's coin was one of the survivors! Check out his log and pics about it. I thought it was pretty neat. :D

Geocoin Collection

Last updated 4-7-06

GW3 pewter coin
GW3 bronze coin
Today's Cacher smashed coin
USA 2005
Migo 2005
Texas 2005
Germany coin
Federation coin
USA 2006
IceCreamMan
MrsIceCreamMan
Joe Merchant
Serial Finder
OIFGA pewter
OIFGA bronze
NEFGA
Florida (FGA)

Signature Items We've Collected

Cacher/Item (will add pics eventually)
last updated 4-7-06

Legna & sOulbAit *** "You're doing what?" geocaching pin (#026)
JenSedai *** info card
November Babies Plus 1 *** Geocaching Magnet
Greywolf and Momcat *** handmade macrame bracelet
Team Rocks *** Pokemon card
CacherCrashers (us) *** geotoken
Lil' Sunshine *** geotoken
StressMaster *** geo wooden nickel (#1 ver 1) and (#22 ver 2)
IceCreamMan*** quote card (#081)
Duckbandits *** Ducky
Paca & Pacas Pal *** turtle
Team Dinosaur *** info card
89GTA & Geo Psycho *** info card

Finally a few caches!

Lil' Sunshine and I went caching today with our friends November Babies plus 1. I got to claim one new cache for us (nb+1 found it first) :) and about six (I think?) for Lil'Sunshine. The one I got to claimf or us was Deer Fly Oasis, it was brand newShe really seems to enjoy being outside, she's a natural born cacher.

We're going to the NEFGA rally event in Palatka on Saturday. I can't wait. We haven't been to an event in a while! I'm looking foward to seeing everyone again, and showing off Lil'Sunshine. :) and hopefully finding a bunch of Palatka caches.

A nice day of caching

Carlee and I went caching today with my friends NovemberBabies+1. I had a blast, and I think Carlee really enjoyed being outside today. We first started out at a new mall that I have been wanting to go to. We ate breakfast at Panera's, and then grabbed the micro right in the parking lot. We grabbed a few more at the mall.


The neatest find today was Year of Independence by Mcleod1. The camo on it was awesome. It was an ammo box desguised as a phone box, which no muggles would think twice about if they saw it.

We then took a nice walk around a beautiful lake area nearby, and found two caches. Then, drove over to the hiking trails at the University of North Florida. Today was my first visit there. It really is a beautiful area. I got to find two caches along these trails with help from Clay. We also stopped on this bridge and I watched the kids feed bread to the fish, turtles, and even an alligator!

It really was a neat sight! If Carlee was older she would of been so excited, I know I was, lol... I wish I had remembered to take my camera along, I'll have to ask NB+1 if I can use some of her pictures. (edit:I've added pics) There are a few more caches along the trails there, so Tony and I will have to go back another day.

I also started leaving our new signature items in caches today. I've been making geotokens for the past few days. I'm so excited about them. They are simple coins made out of polymer clay. Ours has a star design stamped on it, and Carlee's has a cute smiling sun.

I'm planning on going caching again on Saturday, this time with StressMaster and crew. I'll try to take some good pictures.