Day After the Big Event..................

and I needed 5 more caches to get past 1300 so off we went. I poked around in a hole by a tree and couldn't find #1300.........looked like a good hole for critters so I went back to the car for some gloves and then found the cache about 15 feet away stuck in the bough of some trees. Must not have been much of a milestone 'cause now I can't even remember the name of the cache! We hunted around found a few more, including a "Farmer" cache. There's a bunch of these caches around Chico and we nearly got to the point where we would just stop and look around whenever we saw a farm machinery sign. Most of today's caches were easy finds except one in a parking lot near a hardware store. We were all over the place...........coordinates taking us to the middle of the main road. Some guy from the store gave us a "hint"............top of the post he said. That would be find if one were 8 feet tall. A little girl climbed up the pole and didn't find the cache. Someone finally found it at the base of the pole.

We drove down to the Thunder Casino about 15 or so miles from Wheatland and Becky had a players card that had $20.00 worth of free play. We had lunch, Becky won about $17.00 from her free play and then gave it all back to another slot machine. On our way out I dropped some money in a machine and eventually quit when we had recovered the cost of our lunch.

We stopped for a few more caches on the way home and at the last one we shot the breeze with some people who were on their way home. They had spent yesterday volunteering at the event and still had one more event to go to tomorrow where they were also helping out. We asked if they knew what the attendance had been and they thought about 3,300 people attended. Also said we didn't miss much when I told them we missed the dinner. They took a picture of Becky and I before we departed ways.

Heading back to Corning tomorrow morning sometime.

W&B