Week in Review

We celebrated the Light of the World.

We played Pente and Spin the Dreidel (per the kid's request).

I worked on my rug!

Hannah painted and wrote stories.

Josiah played with his dinosaurs.

And. . . we geocached!

(Ha, Ha, . . . it looks like a tiny Josiah balancing on the GPSr)

We logged the following:

1 failed attempt

9 found caches

1 mega geocoin

1 travel bug

1 letterbox

"Yes! I found two!"

Hannah's find

Interesting container

Interesting tree

Our first geocoin

Back of coin

Oh Lucky You, our first travel bug

Back of it

Peacock Place letterbox with mulitcolor stamp

Other tradable loot

"Where's the next one?'

Wordless Wednesday - Oh Deer!

"They're looking at us, Deer. Wave!"

We found this while out geocaching on Monday.

What would you do?

zinnias in the garden

If it were a Friday morning,
 you might go help a friend who is having a Reading Club for neighborhood kids.

If your boy asked,
you would probably let him ride his bike in the culdesac while his sister rode her scooter.

If you want to add culture to your child's education,
you might teach an art lesson and listen to classical music.

If your husband gets off work early and you are adventurous (even in 90 degree weather),
you could go looking for some geocaches.

Do you see where this one might be?

If you have time,
you will find two!

Hannah with our second find of the day.

If you need a treat,
you might find yourself at Baskin Robbins.

Josiah and his favorite (vanilla).

If you are smart,
you will spend some time underwater to escape the heat.

Josiah diving under the noodle.

If you just can't keep your hands out of the dirt,
you will pull some weeds just for fun.

If you want to get an ice cream cake for your birthday,
you will probably go to three different stores before you find one that you think is a good price.

If you want to go out to eat and your favorite place is an hour long wait,
you most likely will go to your second favorite place.

bean burrito and guacamole salad

If you want to come home and relax with a family friendly movie from Netflix,
you're gonna have to settle for a documentary about the ocean, but that's okay because you really do like documentaries about the ocean.

Whew! It was a busy day. Would you choose to do all of those things? Well, we did all of these things on Friday. It's easier to celebrate your last day being 49 that it is to celebrate your first day being 50.

Geocaching

Today, we decided to try our hand at geocaching. This was a Friday when Theron was home early and we definitely needed his "tech"brain help. He was also familiar with using a GPS for something called Orienteering. So, we chose three sites to explore and set out.
Our first one, once again . . .  a disappointment. We searched and searched and could not find it.

Mr. Funnyguy

If this one was tricky, well they had us tricked. We refueled . . .

Yeah, it was hot.

and moved on to our next one, following the directions from our navigational tools and this one had clues, too, that were helpful. It was a nice sight and we enjoyed walking around the grounds. Not sure why I did not take pictures of it. I guess that just adds to the mystery of it for you. It was actually a historic site and while we were there, a nice black car pulled up. The driver pulled a walker out of the trunk and helped his passenger out of the car. They looked at the site and took pictures. The elderly gentleman pointed to an upstairs window. That was his room when he was a boy. He had lots of memories. He remembers running down to the creek for a short dip. Wish we had sat and listened to him reminisce a bit more. Why do we hurry so?
Theron was the one who found the cache, so he got to open it and sign it for us.

This is a small one for sure.

It only contained a log book.

Happy with our first find, we moved on to our last one. With a bit of searching, Theron uncovered it. A much larger stash was found in this one. The kids were delighted. It was a simple mayonnaise jar (cleaned out of course) with a log book, pen and some goodies. The kids were prepared with stuff to trade. There was just one problem. Can you guess what that was?

They both wanted the wind-up monkey

A note for the finder

We got the monkey and left a balloon toy and a Malibu token. They will just have to share the monkey.