My sister Lisa in Indiana was telling me about geocaching a few weeks ago. I finally sat down to look at the website to see what it was all about. Basically its a high tech treasure hunt, where people hid little containers in significant locations. I found that there are two with in a few miles of our house, so of course I wanted to check it out with the family!
We all piled in the car, Jax too and headed about .6 miles from the house. We figured out pretty quickly that the location was the aircraft deisplayed at Arc Light park. But once we got there, we looked for propably 10 minuets with not luck. The kids were really disapointed that they couldn't find the treasure, and I was too. So we headed to the next cach about half a mile away.This time we were led to the old B52 wreckage. Again, the kids were soo excited to find the treasure and weren't really giving us time to think about the hint. Go to "Mars and turn 90 degrees to the left." We were thinking that the plane was the sun? I ended up in the car with the kids, masiquitos were getting them. We weren't too prepared for that. We ended up leaving, kinda frustrated. Aedan was sure to tell us we weren't very good pirates cause we couldn't find the treasure. Discussing the hint on the way home, a light bulb finally came on and we circled around the round about and headed back.
This time it only took a few minuets to find the cach. Michael found it first, then once we were sure where it was, we got the kids back out and helped Aedan find it. He was pretty excited, we took a few pictures. He took out a little army man with a parachute and we left an Australian dollar.
So ended up being pretty fun mini adventure and we plan to go back to arc light to look for that one again. There are over 600 caches around Guam, Michael and I would like to look for more of them as we start getting in some "boonie stomps" (jungle hikes) before leaving the island in december of 2011.
I guess we are pretty good pirates after all.
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