2 FTF's for the PapaNonny Clan

On Sunday the PapaNonny Clan was up and out, bright and early, grabbing some Chicago caches.  We come across a lot of "Blue Star Highway" signs when we geocache....

The next one was an Illinois Spirit Quest cache and located just outside a cemetery...

Papa made the find...

We had a couple that we had to be extra stealthy on....

We were headed back towards home when 2catchick checked her phone alerts and realized that 2 new caches had just published and we were less than a mile away from them.  We decided to try for the FTF (first to find).  In our area, we have some FTF hounds that are super speedy and it's practically impossible to beat them to a newly released cache.  But we thought we might have a slight edge since we were already in the car and less than a mile away.

Louie pushed the pedal to the metal     drove cautiously over to the nearest cache.  He had barely rolled to a stop before the car doors were shoved open and we all rushed out, dashing across the parking lot towards the woods.  I'm almost embarrassed to say that we left my mom in the dust.  Hey, it's a FTF and it's every man for himself!

The GPS showed that we were a couple hundred feet from the cache and we quickly picked our way over logs and brush to ground zero.....

Success!  A pristine log and we got the FTF!  Papa checks the date and time and 2catchick logs us in....

We quickly looked up the 2nd cache that just published and realized that it was less than 2 blocks away.  2catchick and I briefly debated running across an open field to get to the cache, but since it was only about 25 degrees out, we decided Louie could drive us around just as quickly.  We ran back to the car and pointed in the general direction we needed to go.  Louie maneuvered us around a couple of parking lots and pulled up less than 300 feet away from the cache.  Off we went again, eyes scanning in all directions, shocked that none of the usual FTF hounds were pulling up yet.

This cache was hidden in a rather marshy area, but when you're going for a FTF, you don't care if your feet are getting wet or muddy.....

Look at this cute little guy - this was the cache....

We signed our 2nd FTF log of the morning!

Any day spent geocaching is a good day, but any day with TWO FTF's is even better!!!