Our New Hobby - Geocaching!

We rented a cottage up North this past week and James found our family a new hobby...Geocaching. We signed up on-line and then picked some caches to find via GPS coordinates. The kids LOVED it - we found some during our bike rides and some by car. We ended up at so many fun and beautiful places that we NEVER would have gone to or even found. The girls had a great time on dunes, playgrounds, waterfalls, climbing on large rocks, etc.

Greyson was a trooper - he loves being in the backpack and didn't complain much at all - he was always trying to see what the girls were doing and seemed really "into it".

In some of the caches, there are little prizes - the girls got to leave something if they took something - and oh, did the girls get a lot of treasures...I like to call it "geo-trash" (or should it be geo-trache??) We left marbles, littlest pet shoppe, silly bands...

Sydney made a great find in some bushes - this one the cache was attached to a Geo Metro hubcap.

here is the geo-trash. Any jewlery was great - Raleigh got a beautiful CZ necklace and Sydney got a compass ring. We left with glowsticks, necklaces, stickers, penquins, dinosaurs, keychains...the list goes on...

Ummmm...okay...the kids looked a little beaten up after all the tromping around. Greyson has scratches on his forehead (to his credit, he did learn to "duck" when James walked through branches) - this is sydney's leg - James and my legs don't look much better. Raleigh has scratches too. The girls didn't complain though! The kids really were AMAZING - James and I kept commenting at how great they were and how much fun we (and they) were having.

This cache was one of our first ones - this path led us on a nice little walk - the cache was not too far off the trail.

Greyson loved to help too - this is a medium size cache - some looked like this and some were as small as a key box.

We found this one in a hollowed tree trunk. I think the cache was an old Jiffy Jar.

And...as expected...James is ADDICTED! I think we found about 36 caches in the East Jordan, Petoskey area. James even made us stop at a few on the way home. We ended up at a great apple orchard with great food. They had a farm market, petting zoo, rope maze, playground. I cannot remember the name of the place but the coordinates are N 45deg 11.421 W 085deg 45 20.757 if you ever want to go!