Labor Day morning we got up bright and early and headed out to grab some geocaches. Chablis and my parents were with us. By 7:30 am we were on our 5th geocache and we pulled up in the rear of a mall, where there is a walking path around a pond. We parked the car, got out and started searching for the cache. I got really lucky and found it in the second spot I looked. Honestly, we couldn't have been there for 2 minutes. We heard a car pull up and Louie whispers "security is here."
I pulled open the cache container and started signing our names. While the security guard walked down the hill towards us, a regular cop car pulled up and parked behind our car.
The security guard asked us what we are doing since we had been searching near an A/C unit. Here's me looking like a deer in the headlights, not knowing what to say or do....
So Louie says "We're on a CHURCH scavanger hunt." I tell the security guard to come over and I'll show him the cache so he knows it's not a bomb or something. Then the woman cop comes down the hill swinging PINK handcuffs and says something like "Who wants to go to jail?" Here's me running over to show her the cache with visions of her hauling me, my husband, my daughter and my 70 something year old parents off to jail....
They both looked at the cache, we told them other people will be looking for it and to not tell anyone where it's hidden. They were VERY cool about it, told us to have a good day and they left. I suspect the woman cop knew about the geocache being there because she was kind of smirking through the whole thing and after all, why would she have pink handcuffs???
So Louie says "We're on a CHURCH scavanger hunt." I tell the security guard to come over and I'll show him the cache so he knows it's not a bomb or something. Then the woman cop comes down the hill swinging PINK handcuffs and says something like "Who wants to go to jail?" Here's me running over to show her the cache with visions of her hauling me, my husband, my daughter and my 70 something year old parents off to jail....
They both looked at the cache, we told them other people will be looking for it and to not tell anyone where it's hidden. They were VERY cool about it, told us to have a good day and they left. I suspect the woman cop knew about the geocache being there because she was kind of smirking through the whole thing and after all, why would she have pink handcuffs???
Afterwards I asked Louie why he told them we were on a church scavenger hunt and he said when you say "church" it sounds better and it's too involved to explain geocaching. All I know is this - I am not criminal material. LOL!
