Geocaching & A Geo-Event

We attended a "Birthday Bash Geo-Event" and had a blast!

Since this is a Birthday Bash, of course there had to be a cake.

But, on our way to the geo-event, there was this head-on collision between a Monte Carlo and a pickup truck. Unfortunately, neither one came out very well in this 'chance meeting'.

When we arrived at the event, it was in full swing.

As this was an outdoor venue, Mother Nature stopped by in the form of a honey bee. Apparently, this bottle of barbeque sauce had something on it that was ver-ry interesting to bees...

Shortly after arriving, we met up with WW.Wilma and presented her with her personalized, embroidered hat and a geocoin award. This was for competing in our Zodiac Geocoin Contest that recently ended.

One of the contests that were going on at the geo-event was a version of pin the tail on the donkey, by sticking a GPS marker on a plastic plate with an ammo box painted on it. Whoever placed their little GPS marker in the center of it, where a little yellow box was painted is the winner. Luann was the second-to-last contestant and she was off to the left by a bit.

The last contestant was Parris, who came to the event with Karen. He put on the blind fold... Wow, look at that smile!

Then he proceeded to put his GPS marker smack-dab in the middle of the tiny, yellow square. Hey, we have a winner!

Here is Parris, lined up with the winners from the other other event contests, waiting for their prizes.

And he got a beginner's geocaching training book and a trackable name tag.

Cusmith got an ammo box, fully loaded and set to be placed in the field as a geocache.

It looks like Swamp Muck got a glow-in-the-dark, trackable geocoin.

After that was done, I noticed that Trader Rick & Rosie were out front, and I wanted to talk to them about their upcoming geo-event next weekend, and how it is located near one of our geocaches. They didn't even realize it.

Here is a group photo of all of the attendees. We had quite a few geocachers show up at Fitzgerald's. Well, now that the meet-n-greet is over, it's time to look for geocaches in the area.

We started off at this park ans were greeted by these ibis. Apparently, they are very accustomed to being fed by visitors to the area.

When we got to the spot where the geocache is hidden, it quickly turned into a geocacher's haven, because we were joined by other geocachers as we hunted for the hidden container. Karen and Parris are down by the trees.

Next, was this geocache-spot. It turns out we were glad to have Parris with us because he wasn't as 'vertically-challenged' as the rest of us are. We couldn't resist having Parris & Karen pose for this photo.

After we were done with geocaching, Luann remembered that we had seen an abandoned church nearbyand she wanted to photograph it. Th esun was setting, so we were about to get a couple of interesting images.

All of the windows in the church were of stained glass like this one, but as you can see, they are not in any pattern. I like this innovative way of getting the job done.

We said our goodbyes to Karen & Parris after the photo shoot, and then we made one more stop on the way home to get this image. Well, I guess you can say we had a full day...