Getting a Little Fresh Air

Last week we had 2 chances to get outside for some fresh air and geocaching.  On the first day we picked up my parents, dressed warmly, and headed out.  The first cache we looked for was hidden on a gazebo near a park.   It took us about 10 minutes and then I pushed something and Dad took a closer look and found the cache!

Another fun geocache was a very sneaky one hidden near this fire hydrant.  I've seen fire hydrant hides before and this one was very clever.  There was even a decoy cache hidden here.  Take my word - it was a sneaky cache!

Then we drove off to the woods to grab a few.  It was a perfect day to be out hiking around and it felt great to be outside.  Can you spot the cache here?

It was so pretty walking in the woods with the leaves crunching underneath our feet.  Check out my mom - 2 knee surgeries last year, and then radiation and chemo this year, and she was out walking in the woods like a champ.  I think she's pretty darn inspiring, don't you?

She even spotted a couple of the caches before the rest of us...

This cache practically hit me upside the head as I walked underneath it and totally missed seeing it...

I think we were all happy to be outside doing something together that we enjoy....

We found this geocache laying out in the open, its contents laying in the dirt.  We cleaned everything up and then re-hid the cache better than we found it....

The next day Louie and I headed out alone to tackle a series of geocaches that were going to require quite a bit of bushwacking and about 3 miles of trail.  My favorite one of that day was this one where we needed to improvise with some natural tools to reach the cache that was hidden about 20 ft. up in the air....

 Getting it down was pretty easy.....

But putting it back up proved to be more difficult.   Louie was determined tho and finally got the cache back where it needed to be.

I have to say, walking in the woods this time of year is one of my favorite things to do.