Some friends of ours (with 2 kids, a boy and a girl, nearly the same age as ours) told me about this world wide "treasure hunting" phenomenon called "Geocaching". Nowadays you use your cell phone as a GPS or a portable car GPS, put in coordinates, and go find boxes, bobbles, containers, and the like all over. They are literally hidden everywhere.
While Matt, Tonya and the girls (Jeremiah's brother, sister-in-law and their 3 girls for those who don't know) were visting in July, we set out to Carey Park to find such treasures. We found one, the other -despite wading across the Arkansas River, loosing a shoe, and looking for a "camouflaged" container in the trees on the island- eluded us. But it was still fun!
The kids spend nearly the entire week building a fort in a grove of ceder trees. It was hot again this year for their visit...miserable!
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| Bethany and Rachel reading some of the helpful clues to help us locate the "cache" |
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| Not all of them have goodies inside, sometimes they are just a log to write your name on but my understanding is if you take a treasure out, you put one back in. Not knowing what kind we'd find, we gave each of the children a coin to exchange for stickers. |
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| left to right: Rachel, Bethany, Drew, Deana, Nancie |
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