Not for the Vertically Challenged

The caching with November Babies Plus 1 today started out great. We started at one hidden by a Sweet Tomatoes, so we had lunch... yummy... then every cache we were hitting, we were finding! Then we made our way to Hail to the Chief- G by Macleod1, a cache that I have tried to find several times and never succeeded.... until today that is. It happened to be on NB+1's list of ones to hit, and I thought, "ugh... that cache... I'm NEVER going to find that cache."

We pulled up to the spot, and looked around, checking for muggles... no one, so we started to look. We thought about the hint (the title of this post)... and knew we were probably going to have trouble. I'm 5 foot 4 in, and NB+1 is a tad bit taller than me... "But, I don't know because I made MrCC look for it sine he's way taller than me," I told her. We continued looking anyway, we knew it had to be in this palm tree... we knew it... it felt like forever that we were looking for it, and finally, we kind of both gave up at the same time.

As I was getting into the car, I looked up at the tree, one last time in defeat.... and then, I caught a glimpse if something dark poking out of one of the palm branch things... could it be? yes! it was the cache!!! "I see it!" I yelled.

Wow. This cache was way up there, there was no way we were going to be able to get it... but we tried anyway. I stacked my two trade item containers at the base if the tree, hoping it would make me tall enough... not only was I still too short, they gave out and I slipped off of them... ugh! I was so close... kinda... lol...

I then decided I was not leaving without this cache. I had tried half a dozen too many times without finding it. "I'm going into the store to see if they'll let me borrow a stepstool," I said and then marched into the business with a mission.

I asked a girl. She looked at me funny, and then asked, "Well, where are you going to be?"

"Just right there in the parking lot." She didn't ask any more questions, and brought me a nice step stool for us vertically challenged. It was just the height I needed to grasp the cache... It was mine! I had finally found this cache!!! I was so excited! It was definately an adventure I won't forget anytime soon.

Green Cove Springs

We went to Green Cove Springs tonight to meet some caching friends up for dinner and to get our Federation coins. what? no smiley? lol... nope, just friends, bbq, and coins, oh and a few caches before dinner. :)

We did A River Runs By It, by GatoRx and Meadowmuffin. We were with a group of people for this one, The SuzyQs, Mrs Kile Mates, Caraloopy, Some Dude, GatoRx, Meadowmuffin, and StressMaster. The owners showed up because at first we thought the cache might be gone from it's spot... but it was there, the dirt just needed some stirring up to find it. After finding it, we walked around the park. It is such a beautiful area. We saw a swan, and some turtles in the stream. It was really cool. Mrs Kile Mates took this picture:

We also found Green Cove Springs Swimming Hole, by the Federation, and it reminded me of home. It's a virtual by a pool that is naturally filled by the springs. When I realized what it was, I thought of the one that is back home in Lampasas, Texas. This one is really cool though, because it has a well that you can look into. MrCC joked about letting Lil' Sunshine go for a little swim in it. haha.... not. :)

After that we went to the dinner. The purpose of getting together was to get our Federation coins that we ordered. They are really really nice, and Fed said that there was going to be a puzzle cache out soon... and the puzzle is on the coin! That should be fun.... lol.

Nefga Does Union County

Lil' Sunshine's 100th Cache!!!

Today we (Lil' Sunshine and I) went to the Nefga Does Union County event. MrCC was supposed to come to but ended up having to work :( so, lil' sunshine and I joined Stressmaster and crew for a great day of caching. The event was held with the purpose of hiding caches in Union County, since there were only a handfull of existing caches there. There were seven teams and each team hid a cache, and then we all met up and traded coords, and went and hunted everyone else's cache. After caching the day away, we joined up at a park for a bbq. It was a lot of fun. I took a few pics:

This was one of the first caches we found today. I thought it was a beautiful memorial, and definately a nice place to visit.

Stressboy Matt climbing down with "Monkey Girl" cache (by legna & sOulbAit) in hand. Those boys sure do come in handy sometimes! lol :)

StressMaster retreiving "Princess" cache (by Sights2c). He earned our smiley for us. :)

We enjoyed the view at this cache for a while. We even saw some huge butterflies flying around, they were really pretty.

Lil' Sunshine was pooped after a day of caching! She took a nap and let me eat dinner, but the nap was short, and she was back to entertaining (and being entertained by) all the cacher-kids. We had so much fun today!

HI-Tech Caching

There are so many gadgets out there that can be used while geocaching. The GPS of course being the most necessary (though I've seen people cache without them, and we found our first cache sans gps), but many people also use PDAs and laptops. We've joined that group. :)

We took our laptop with us when we went caching the other day. It is so neat. We use GSAK, so if we need to look at a cache page, all we have to do is open the program and look. Another exciting thing was after we found our first cache that day, I was able to log the find from the parking lot of the park by using a wireless connection. It's definately not a necessity, but it is so neat to be able to do.

#600!!!

FINALLY!!! We got #600 today! We have been so close for a few weeks now... and it's taken us so long to finally reach this milestone... almost five months! As of this morning we only needed four caches, so we decided to go out and get those four. But only those since gas prices have skyrocketed... We tried for a few that are close to our home, but couldn't find them... I give up too easily. :( But we drove down to the beaches and found the three that we needed. A cool one was #599, Larry71150 Coin Depot. The container was really neat, we've never seen one like it before, and the idea of the cache is cool too. It's goal is to collect the fifty state quarters. We added in a California quarter.

After that we tried to claim a multi for our #600, but it was at the beaches, and the beaches were packed today! Too many muggles made us decide to just go home and claim the locationless in front of our apartment office that we had been saving. So, we made USA Flag our #600. We claimed our complex's flag because it's extra special to us since this is our first home as a married couple. :) Hopefully we'll get back into caching more often... It took us too long to reach this milestone... lol... (Tony looks so excited in the picture...not. We were both tired of dealing with stupid traffic and moron drivers... lol)