Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Went Caching Today.............


after I mentioned to Sue and Frank that I'd like to go out and get the Arizona Alpha-Numeric challenge cache. To complete the series we had to find a cache with a name that started with each letter of the alphabet and the number 0-9. Sue thought she needed one more to complete the series so we went after that and then hunted down the final cache. It was in a little park out in the sticks. Nice and warm and rocky but no snakes. First set of pictures is on the way to the final cache and pictures when we found it. Naturally it was stuck in the middle of a thorny Ocotillo. Took two pictures of the "finders", first one you can't see faces because of the caps...........second one you probably still can't see anyone from the "glare" off FOs forehead. After that we continued hunting some more down in the park..........I'll bet Sue's kids aren't aware of the places that "Mom" will climb to in order to put her name on a little piece of paper!! Frank found one up in the rocks.........it was hidden under a "fake" rock. Pretty neat hide.

We started the day off with a cache about 2 or 3 miles from the park. This used to be the spring training camp for the Dodgers and Giants. You can't tell it now but this area where we started out was part of the baseball diamond. Becky made the find as S&F watched since they previously found this one. We found several after that, one that FO had to climb up a little hill to get. We followed him but he had the cache before we reached ground zero..........of course the rest of us are in no hurry when climbing is involved. Found a few more here and there and I think Becky and I found about 18. It was nice to get the Alpha-Numeric off our list of things to do. I think Sue is double checking the caches they have found before logging a find on it.
Don't know what we'll be doing tomorrow..........maybe looking for some of the easier ones in town if it isn't too HOT. I think it reached low 80s today. Have reservations at a motel in Tombstone for next Tuesday and Wednesday. Lots of touristy stuff to do down there so B and I figured we may as well spend 2 or 3 days and get everything done. We'll be back to Casa Grande on Thursday.
Kids, give Mom heck for climbing around like a mountain goat..........probably won't do any good though. Later W&B


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