Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Today was an interesting adventure. We took the Cub Scouts geocaching in place of a meeting at the school. Brad and I figured we had better do it early in the season while it's still light by 7:30 or 8 and still warm, and it would be a good idea to get the kids out of the school for the first time as soon as possible. So, we met over by the Winona Lake playground with some borrowed GPSs, and broke into 3 groups. I had the tigers, and a couple siblings. It was interesting getting everyone over the creek, for sure. We did some balancing and some lifting and managed to keep them all dry. We found one of the caches, but had no more time for looking before we needed to be back. As we were heading back, we passed Brad's group just arriving looking for the same one. It was funny to see Alex leading the way, holding the GPS. Turns out they never found it. Probably they just don't have the geo-sense yet. But there was an extra one hidden near the fire ring (placed my me, today) to give them a meatball to find in case of disappointment. We crossed the creek again going the same way we had coming...but Brad's group found the bridge. I think the kids really enjoyed it. We'll have to do some again in the spring.