Geocaching Fever!

We have caught the bug and it is absolutely my fault! I mentioned to my hubby that a friend's hubby and sons were Geocaching and what a great activity it might be for him and the kids to do and great for geography lessons. He responded a little more enthusiastically than I could have anticipated and went out the same day to buy a hand held GPS!

***Geocaching is finding hidden caches in your area planted by others using specified coordinates programmed into a GPS.***

Last night we literally scarfed down dinner the minute Mr. Clean came in the door to try and uncover a cache (treasure hunting is what the kids call it) before the sun went down. Being novices we picked ("we" being Mr. Clean ) for our very first treasure hunt, a micro cache. Micro is exactly what it sounds like. Our first geocache outing was unsuccessful as we did not find our treasure!

Not ones to be defeated, Mr. Clean promptly came home and looked up the success rate for the cache he picked. No one found it on the first try! So this weekend I think we should start out finding a cache the size of, I don't know, Vermont? At least the kids would not go away empty handed and disheartened!