Geocaching

Casey has found a new hobby. Geocaching. What? Yep, that is what I said too!

Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile deice and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world.

So, seek & find, treasure hunting, scavenger hunt - whatever you want to relate it to it doesn't matter. Mainly because my kids really enjoy it! Casey put the app on his phone and off they went!

He even took the cute girls that I babysit, Laynee & Addy, a couple of times!

It is a nice inexpensive family activity for those months of 'blah'.  

Not enough snow for winter activities, way too muddy for hiking, and not hot enough to go swimming.

Casey & Mona snuck away from a family baptism for a bit and found one!

At the Anderson Easter picnic in Bothwell, Blake & Casey went on the hunt.  Success!

It is kind of interesting.  Some are so tiny and you just find the 'log' and put your name (or handle on the app) and the date.  You then put any helpful details onto the app as well.  That way you can see when it was last found or someone might give more hints as to where it is.  They are all pretty different!  The kids gathered up some random things around the house and they take it with them so that they can trade 'swag'.  If you take something, leave something behind!

You also want to be pretty sneaky.  Which is quite difficult with 5 kids.  You don't want people to be watching to see what you are doing because they may go to it after you leave and throw it away or ruin it.  Hoodlums are the worst!