He Found the Cache, But I Found the Cash

18 November, 2010.  Dreary, drizzly, chilly.  Just the right kind of weather for geocaching!  Yay!  Put on the long johns and a couple of extra layers and I'm ready to go.

Woodhick803 and I found 13 caches today.  Well, actually Woodhick found ALL OF THEM.  No fair - he was jumping out of the car before I even had the engine turned off.  Next time HE drives!  Not only did he find all the caches, I even paid for lunch!  (I prefer brie with that whine, please.)

The most significant part of the day, however, was that we were able to celebrate Woodhick's 100th find.  Here are photos of the momentous occasion.

Woodhick manipulates the lock to open this clever cache which looked just like an electrical box, but had the official geocaching sticker affixed to it.

 Woodhick signs the log.  If he realized this was his 100th find, he didn't let on, although he did make the comment that as of this morning he had made 91 finds.  Wonder if he was subconciously keeping track?

Even though Woodhick may not have been keeping track of his finds today, I was.  And, being the wonderful sister that I am, I had planned ahead and made this wonderful Certificate of Achievement (suitable for framing) to present to him at the appropriate time.

Congratulations, Woodhick!

Woodhick may have found all the caches today, but at the last site I found cash.  Cash!  Alright, it was only 11 cents, but still......

Oh yeah - happy birthday, Mom.  Aren't you delighted that your children are playing together finally?  

 Get outside and play!

2 + 3

Woodhick and I started off early on Tuesday, 11/2/10, with a couple stops at caches I'd already found, but soon found ourselves off on a couple of Waypoint_Wayne hides.  The first one took us to a cemetery near Mabscott, WV, where we had to locate a particular epitaph and count the frequency of certain letters and then assign them numeric values.  That would then give us the co-ordinates to the cache itself. 

This hill is much steeper than it looks.  Poor old Woodhick practically had to scramble up the first 20 feet or so on all fours.  I stayed at the bottom, but Woodhick says he signed my name to the log anyway.  Can you see him up there?








By now it was time for lunch and if you've been following this blog, you know that a good lunch is always a highlight of the day.  This time it was at Calacino's for their supreme pizza.  Very good.  Good crust, too.  (And yes, both of us remember the original Calacino's when "pizza pie" was an exotic food in Beckley.)

Another Waypoint_Wayne geocache had us out seemingly miles away from town, although we were just at the end of Woodlawn Avenue, practically in the center of town!  This one was called Raleigh Coke and Coal #4 and contained a history lesson on the mine and the miners who lost their lives there.

While returning from this cache I got a text message from the Drybees family.  We connected with them at the YMCA soccer fields and did a couple of caches together, with the Drybees daughter making the finds.  Good job!








With the onset of poor weather, I'm wondering how many more geocaching days Woodhick and I will be able to make.  I'd certainly like to hit the 100 finds mark (I'm at 78 now) before I have to hang up the GPS for the winter.  We'll see.

Get outside and play!