Saturday, May 24, 2008

Geocaching!!!





Bring it on!! We all got up this sunny, cool saturday morning and headed out for a "fun" morning of geocaching. Chris mentioned it the other morning and i naively agreed. Maybe tromping around in the woods with no clear direction(to me...however, he was the one holding the GPS and pointing at the vague and distant trees saying, "it is over there") just isn't my thing. I try to play it cool for the kids but every once in awhile i lost my calm and cool composure, just a little. Like when we were climbing straight up a muddy slope and my good sneakers were getting all muddy and the bugs just would not leave me the heck alone. But my Avery is a natural, she got the roaming the woods gene from Chris. She climbed and whacked her way through the brush and low tree limbs like a pro. She even crossed a stream, rock hopping style. Something about the outdoors and being a "hiker" transforms her. I am so glad. She loves it!!! She gets tired after a little while but her legs are not as long as everyone else so we cut her a little slack. And as the pictures tell, Mitchie did a whole lot of riding. Otherwise we would have had to listen to him cry and ask to be picked up and carried the whole time. He will grow into this outdoors thing, i think...and maybe i will too...who knows. Chris would be so happy.



5 comments:

Colleen said...

I think I would like to go geocaching, but I'd want to be the one holding the GPS.

Leslie said...

no kidding, i might want to be the one holding it next time too. :o)

Grammie/Mom said...

Leslie, think of the memories the kids will hold onto from trips like this. Having the pictures will keep it fresh.

hashbrowns said...

I wish the hashbrowns could have been with you! It looks like it was a beautiful day to be out hunting coordinates and treasures... but does NY have snakes? That is one reason I am so glad to be back in AK to geocache... no snakes waiting to be found with the treasure!

Sarah

Leslie said...

yes, there are snakes here and no i had not even considered that. Hmmm.

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