[Mub Girl]

Yikes! Out of our 230 caches our 3 and 6 year old have gone on all but 5 of them. On rare caches (like the caves in Door County) the kids will only go so far and then my husband will do the difficult part while we watch, they will literally go until WE say it is too dangerous…they are both daredevils. We have done 10 caches in a day with them (state of minds so not too difficult) and rarely do we get whining. Our three year old doesn’t remember life BEFORE geocaching so he is great with it. He hikes most of the time (in good boots from REI) but will succumb to the ocasional piggy back ride where he has been known to doze off!! Our six year old is amazing! She likes going to REI/Gander Mountain/Bass pro shop to look at GPS’s and hiking gear! She is also an avid gymnast and wants to be the first doctor on Mars so, go figure, she has lots of energy!!
We stock up on treats and the kids like activity books for in the car. This summer we got a portable movie player so they can watch movies in the car but they are always up for caching. As long as it is not cold, Mubbles hybernate!!!!!

[Mub Girl]

I actually liked the first book BETTER than DVC. Both were interesting though since, along with geocaching, art history and linguistics are my hobbies (and reading). As for his first two books, they are not as good, Brown tends to be formulaic meaning if you read A&D and DVC you will be able to figure out the twist by about page 50. If you don’t want to read the book you can always wait until 2006 when the movie comes out starring TOM HANKS! (??!!)
Anyway, we were going to do our series based on DVC were you had to plot the finals of the caches to find the location of the puzzle but, alas, the parks locations could not cooperate I DO think it would be neat to do one in DOwntown Milwaukee as a virtual puzzle using the symbols on some of the older buildings. It would be a combination of geocaching and research that could be very cool…and a lot of work!

[Mub Girl]

Arrrg I hate daylight savings time! No More caching when Tom gets home from work He’d go out in the dark but the kids won’t and I won’t let him go without me (why should he have all the fun?) Oh well, weekend caching is fun too!!

[Mub Girl]

I am one of those ‘longtime ‘lurkers’, a person who does NOT post a lot for fear that my opinion will be blasted. Strangly, I think that I do that here out of habit only. It is no where near as bad as most of the boards I frequent. One in fact, had to delete the “number of posts” Tally under the usernames because it was getting to the point where if you were new, you were automatically flamed. On this board the main reason I don’t want to offend is two words : Event Cache.
Thanks for the tutorial though. I am a dummy in many respects myself.
Trish. The Mub Girl.

[Mub Girl]

I just wanted to say that The Mubbles are SO excited about http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=176327
We started caching right after the contest ended and have always enjoyed these -and all of socko’s hides in the area- very very much. SOM will go down in history as one of the best original series’ ever. If only the whole darn undertaking could get Cache of the Month.
We have 6 more and it only took us a little over a year. I can’t wait to find D.C.!!!!!

eta. thanks to brew for the link above. It has really helped, even though we have hunted moved/replaced caches as well to clear the thing!

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[Mub Girl]

cap kal,
Are your parents beavers2 by any chance??!! We ‘rescued’ them from a Lil’Otter Cache in Lakewood last month!!!! I believe they told us that they got into caching by checking on their kids’ caches. We Loved the caches that we did when we were up there. It is a lovely area that I have visited since I was a kid (my parents have a place on Wheeler Lake in Lakewood) but have never really “explored” until I started caching. Anyway beavers2 are really awesome, they got stuck in a ditch, ran out of batteries in their GPS and STILL went on to find the cache! It was amazing. They were very nice as well and my kids loved the dog (Chance?).
Hope to run into you next summer on our trip or down here somewhere. Glad to know that WI is the place to be geocaching!
Trish (The Mubbles)

[Mub Girl]

Congratulations to Waukesha Wizards for being the first finders at all five caches!!

It was great seeing the ecorangers at the Big PayOut. We sort of felt like that guy on the show “Amazing Race” who greats everyone at the final of the challenge saying “Congratulations, you are team number 4”. Don’t worry guys, we are not planted by the final waiting for people to emerge…we were on our way for ice cream. After we took off we felt awful for not inviting the ecorangers to join us. You guys are so much fun!
I am glad that everyone seems to be liking the caches so much!
Trish

[Mub Girl]

Man, I come back to caching and there are all these cool new features!! Yawn…I have been asleep way to long!
Hopefully I will *remember* sunday and join you!

[Mub Girl]

We ran into our first ever cachers in Lakewood WI a few weeks ago. Here we are living in the Big City and it takes a trip up there to spot fellow geocachers!
The best part of the story though is that, here we are in the middle of NOWHERE out to find a cache placed at an old homestead. We spotted where it must be and sent out Tom and Cait for the find while I stayed with our sleeper. While they were looking I notice a couple walking on the road with their dog. I thought they must be locals because not one car had passed on the road and there was just farm land…then they headed to the ol’ homestead…I did NOT think that they were cachers because why wouldn’t they park by the cache? (Country folk) I got scared, were we supposed to be there?? All of the sudden I see my husband and the others dancing…..wait, no that’s not how it goes…anyway we find that they ARE geocachers, they took the wrong DIRT road and ended up driving their car into a ditch and couldn’t get it out. They decided to STILL LOOK FOR THE CACHE!!! (Hey, they were only .34 from it) On the way, the batteries DIED on their GPSr!! They STILL WENT FOR THE CACHE! They had no cell phone service as this is the middle of nowhere. Did I mention … THEY STILL WENT FOR THE CACHE! Anyway, when they saw us they thought they were closer to a main road than they were. In fact, they were all spun around and had no idea where they were on the map we produced. (I always print a mapquest map if I am caching in unknown parts with the mublettes). Well, our Testosterone Pumped Captain says “I Can Pull You Out Your DOdge Ram with MY Eddie Bauer Edition Ford Explorer” – Didn’t happen. We don’t know WHY they chose this road…it isn’t even a road its barely a path. We say, we’ll drive you home, but they know someone close by..the Lakewood Fire Inspector…who can pull them out (I bet he has a HEMI) …He’s not home and the womanfolk gotta pee, the womanfolk are from the city and don’t like to squat (especially the 6 year old womanfolk) but what’s this? His wife is home and lets said womanfolk use the potty and takes them home from there. Our quick 5 minute geocache was one of our greatest adventures yet!!
Thanks for letting me share, Trish
The Cache is “Relics – A Gem in a Sea of Green Forest” by The Lil Otter and the team was beavers2 – newbies and so daring!!

[Mub Girl]

Thank You for Noticing!!!!!!!!!!!

Boy, you know we ticked off a couple early this summer but then our littlest mublette was in the hospital so we had to take ANOTHER break…and to make a long story short, we went to Lakewood and Door COunty a few weeks ago with our GPS full of new caches and found we are in shape and ready to go again!!!!
Gosh, who woulda thought that we were once ahead of Cathunter and that we remember WitnalGPS’s first cache box and that we JUST got to 100 after being ON FIRE last year. I swear we were ready to hit it by October! Ah well, what’s past is past.
I also wanted to say that we have just been amazed at the quality of the caches around here that we have done and want to do. They seem to have gotten more clever, challenging and fun than we ever remember. We literally can’t wait to do some. Ahhhh to be new again at our old favorite hobby with a huge pile of caches on our GPS awaiting our arrival…….
We are getting ready to place our first (actually we have three spots picked out) but our Captain is trying to think of something clever so it may take a while (I of course would just stick it in a stump in the woods and name it but alas, you’ll see when it’s placed who won that battle!!)
We hope to attend an event soon, we missed the picnic and we were all so dissapointed that we couldn’t squeeze it in to a hectic day.
Can’t wait to see you all on the trail,
Trish, Tom and our mublettes – Cait and Ben

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