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Our grandkids enjoyed meeting someone from out of the states and the ages of the kids matched up perfect. They all had a good time. There was supposed to be a fourth member of their team, but unfortunately the father is still hospitalized since early July with serious heart problems. The trip here was planned in advance and the rest of the family decided to attend anyway. We tried our best to make their visit here enjoyable.
I didn’t realize that there was a competition (I’m being sarcastic) to be the first to find all of the caches. I’m going to side with Uncle Fun on the fact that the event is about and for geocachers to have fun. I too would like to see the elimination of $$$ prizes and maybe an increase in the amount of prizes such as gift cards from merchants.
I hope any negative comments on changing the way coordinates and downloads were made available are looked upon lightly. For the magnitude of what was involved in pulling this off I thought most things evolved quite smoothly. If someone wants to turn this into a competition, they’re in the wrong game.
We found 14 of the new ones on Saturday and 10 more after the Pancake Breakfast on Sunday. We were surprised at how much WB looked like a Ghost Town around noon on Sunday when we were doing P & G’s. Maybe everyone slept in and went out later. We were first or second to sign on all that we did on Sunday. Without the congestion Sunday we found 10 in one hour.
First off as a second year attendee I’ll say that in many ways the event was twice as good as the previous year. Since we live only 25 minutes away we came more for the social aspects than the geocaching. The Friday and Sunday events were major improvements. We hunted a mix of new and old hides concentrating mainly on an area north of Regner Park and Kewaskum.
Friday night – found the 2 downtown multis
Saturday – 14 new and 16 old caches
Sunday – found 2 existing hides in the park and got to do some bonus caches when our 21 month old grandson fell asleep immediately as we hit the road for home. We found 10 of the new park and grabs in one hour and got his nap in at the same time.So we were quite happy with 48 smileys which included all 4 events. Throughout the weekend we discussed how much more fun the social part was this year and since we average 80-90 finds per month we have plenty of future WB outings to look forward to before next years event.
Next years event is already marked on our calendar and we look forward to another weekend of great geocahing fun with friends, old and new.
Mister Greenthumb and Sunshine
Bill and Vicki@furfool wrote:
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@thepharmgirl wrote:
Used teal ’93 Plymouth Colt Vista… Unique little car…
Unique? You better look up the meaning of that word.
I started driving just before the era of muscle cars. All of my friends eventually had one.
Some of the cars I owned in the 1960’s
1955 Chevy Bel-Air
1956 Chevy Bel-Air
1957 Chevy Bel-Air
1959 Chevy Impala
1963 Chevy Impala convertibleIf I still had all of them I could pay someone to find geocaches for me.
The ’57. My dream car. Was it a hard top Bill?
2 door hardtop, red and off white tutone. Bored 283 with a Holley 4-barrel and a rare 2 speed automatic.
thepharmgirl wrote:Used teal ’93 Plymouth Colt Vista… Unique little car…Unique? You better look up the meaning of that word.
I started driving just before the era of muscle cars. All of my friends eventually had one.
Some of the cars I owned in the 1960’s
1955 Chevy Bel-Air
1956 Chevy Bel-Air
1957 Chevy Bel-Air
1959 Chevy Impala
1963 Chevy Impala convertibleIf I still had all of them I could pay someone to find geocaches for me.
No problems here.
A 1956 Chevy Bel-Air tutone. Bought it in 1964 for $150. A year later I upgraded to a 1959 Impala for $300.
I remember hearing from someone that some of the caches might be in the Kettle Morraine area. Are any of the caches hidden on DNR land where a State Parks admission sticker is required?
I checked a few times today and no warning. I also had it in my favorites until the link was re-established and never saw the warning.
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Hey Bill, We’re in the same boat. This is going to be our first grandchild, too.
Let us know when the big event occurs! Way better than any caching milestone.
This will be our fifth grandchild. The big brother (21 months) of the new one will be staying with us most of the weekend and will be coming to the pancake breakfast. He is a member of the T-Monkeys. We are giving him back to his dad on Saturday so we can be there all day.
We could hit #2000, but we’re on new grandson alert all week and all of our attending is up in the air right now.
Congratulations on your accomplishment and for not falling out of the boat.
In a little over two years we have hidden 120 caches. 94 are still active. I’m more addicted to hiding than I am finding. A lot of our early hides were hidden without enough thought going in to them. Our more recent hides have included WSQ’s in old historic cemeteries, series, multis and scenic or interesting places. I always have at least 10 that I am working on in my mind. We carry an assortment of containers with us when we’re out. Watertight containers and regular visits for maintenace are a must for us. We only have one disabled cache right now that I’m working on a new container for right now. The satisfaction from placing hides comes from the many kind logs we receive and the reputation that we have in our area for quality hides.
Since we only live 25 minutes away finding many of the new caches is not a priority, they’ll still be there on Monday. We plan on doing most of our Saturday geocaching in the Kewaskum area and will grab any of the new ones up that way. We plan on attending all three days and the social aspects of the weekend will take priority over geocaching. That’s the nice part of already having found more this year than all of last year.
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