Geocaching

I told Adam at the beginning of the week that we need to try out Geocaching as a family again. He did it with his young men on Tuesday, and they were all fans. They went all around town to find some. I told him to plan it, and we'd go. Well Gabe has been telling us all week she wants to go climb the mountains. What can we say, we've brought her up right. Well there are these dirt, desert foothills right off of I-80 near our house. We decided we'd venture over there. I really didnt' know what I was getting myself into when Adam said it would be a little hike. I thought, no problem. I told him to let me rest my already swollen feet for an hour, and we'd go. Silly almost due pregnant woman. Ha. We were successful in our three finds, and I think I might have been successful in furthering my progression along. Which so all of you know, is actually not what I want for at least another week.



They actually have these official stickers you can get to put on a cache if you hide one, so people will leave them alone if found.

A quick show off of the dress Nana sent for Gabe. Thanks she loves it as you can see. Please excuse her crazy hair I was trying to maintain by her headband-unsuccessfully.

These are the "small hills" we climbed. When you are almost 37 weeks pregnant, those aren't small. We hiked about three, so normally not bad. About halfway up the second, Adam says, "I probably could have pulled the car up here." Ha! We also joked upon seeing an old crappy chair, that someone knew I'd be hiking and set it out for me to rest. (Sorry- I was playing with my black and white setting back and forth. I forgot one of the settings was on it.)



Gabe even eventually hitched a ride with Daddy.


While Daddy checked coordinances to even make sure we were by our "treasure", Gabe observed bugs...

And threw Rocks

Daddy then told us we needed to climb another hill. Okay I thought, here goes nothing.

Greta ended up cutting her foot on something (she's okay), so I hung out with her, and sent the other two frolicking off to find the cache, or treasure/toys as Gabe would say.


They found it!

With bigger caches, the rule is you are supposed to put something in if you take something out. You never know what you're gonna find. Ours was full of fun little trinkets. The cache was called pirate something, so the original guy put a pirate theme on all his stuff. There was some of that left, but a lot of other random toys. Gabe loved this little dinosaur key chain for some reason. She wanted to take all the toys out and play with them all right then and there, we thought it was funny. It was hard for her to just choose one.

Adam sampled the sunglasses found in there. Gggrrr, lookin hot babe.

Gabe was good at letting us know a dinosaur says ROOOARRR. We weren't aware she knew what one said.

Proof I did hike myself up there as well

Our third cache was on the way home at this fun new park, where Gabe found a beautiful bracelet. (It was really ugly)


Is that not the biggest tunnel slide you've ever seen? Ha. Gabe has been into the tunnel slides lately, and actually volunteered to go down it. It happened only once and she was nervous the whole way down

There you have it folks, our new hobby. With all the hiking and exploring we like to do, it'll be fun to add this onto it. Maybe in a week I'll be making Adam take me to the "real" mountains to put myself into labor, and we can still find caches along the way. Our next goal is to hide our own near our house somewhere.