4.12.07

Geocaching with Grandpa


Geocaching web site. We went on our first geocaching trip today. A teacher at my school let me borrow his old GPS unit. It was great. Grandpa was dropping Josh off from their trip to Chelan and so we took him along with us. We all had a great time. You can check the website above, but here's the basics. Geocaching is a 'treasure' hunting game. People hide a cache somewhere and then enter the latitude and longitude from their gps(global positioning system)online saying that there is a cache in the location. Then, someone sees that there is a cache in their area on the website, puts the coordinates into their gps and then tries to go and find it. The cache has things in it. Josh took an X-box game and Mackenzie took a little tiny stuffed animal. Josh left a stretchy frog and Mackenzie left a strawberry shortcake toy. I took a travel bug for diabetes tag that I record online that I took, and then I place it in another cache the next time I find one. It would be good fun for a college student I would think. Check out the site above and give it a try yourself.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've heard of this before. Glad Omar got to be part of the adventure. Sure loved having Josh this week. He was a delight!