Not  that long ago my Pop started Geocaching.

My Sister and  Pop at a  -First To Find- in 2008…

I don’t know what number he was then, but yesterday…

This was them at his 1000th find!

He is now a proud member of the four digit club or 4DC… My sister presented him with his new hat!

The gang was all there…

My hubby took the group photo… This is how it went.

My Sister- “Okay everyone look at the camera. Take one more, That’s good…”

My Sister- “Okay, that’s enough… no more… On to the next cache!”

My Pop- “We’re done already? But it’s my 1000th find! Ummm…Can someone help me up? ”

(Just kidding, my Pop is still spry and young, no help needed.)

It was a great day and we saw some wonderful things. (To be posted about later.)

We didn’t make it back to the giant heads though, a shame because I have heard that Mr. Moran did  Lincoln last year… I can’t wait to see it.

Any excuse for another ROAD TRIP!

Do you ever wonder why we do the ODD things we do?

I am sure that I do them because of my family.

Went Geocaching awhile ago with my Father in Law.

We did a Spirit Cache.

It took us to a cemetery to see the grave of Johnny Griffith.

Mr Griffith  played with the Funk Brothers, an in house band for MoTown Records, they- “played on more number one hits than the Beatles, Elvis Presley,the Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys combined. “

You can hear them on 

My Girl, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Baby Love…

The list goes on and on…

While walking around the cemetery I found a headstone with what has become my favorite name ever…

Kizzie Little

Instead of  birth and death on her headstone it read Sunrise and Sunset… it seemed  right out of a Fannie Flagg novel.

I love the things I  see and learn geocaching.

Better than the stuff I see, is WHO I see it with… 

I am so blessed.

Got your Geocache?

I think I’ve finally figured it out!

I weeded out my subscriptions and got rid of people I don’t know… Then I turned on my subscription digest!

Now we will see if I’m able to make it to all of my friends in  a timely manner… I hope so, I’m tired of arriving late to the party!

I was going to do a PPS09 post, but I don’t have it together  today.

So I will post more of my sisters visit.

When she comes up I become a geocaching tag along… I love it… all of the fun, none of the work!

I get to follow along and take pictures to my little hearts content.

We went to the Upper Peninsula, along the way we stopped at a restaurant…

I’m not sure we will be eating there again…

I’m don’t know where they GET the fingers… but our’s were all intact when we left.

WE stopped at Sea Shell City for a virtual cache where my sister proceeded to scare the kiddies by letting the man killing clam eat her hand.

(If you don’t hear from me again, it’s because she has KILLED me for posting this picture! )

I did a bit of looking UP.

Cooper did a bit of worm hunting.

That’s what he calls it, HUNTING worms.

And my Sister kept trying to throw a perfectly good kid away!

It was a grand adventure. I can’t wait to do it again next year!

I hope that I will be able to keep up with my subs now, I really miss some of you!

How do you read your subs?

This weekend some of us went with Aunt D and Uncle Mat to a Halloween geocaching event.

Sammy and Cooper, super heros, with their side kick, Isabelle super kitty…

A lady looked at Cooper and said “Look it’s Spiderman!”

To which Cooper replied “No it’s not, I’m COOPER! I’m just dressed like Spiderman.”

We were all glad he cleared that up.

GEOCACHING

(link here)

or

Using millions of dollars worth of satellites to find a tupperware container in the woods…

Is great fun, and most of you know I am a tag along.

I have never been caching with so many people before though.

Everyone was looking for the first cache at once.

There were about twenty people looking up and down…

On the fence…

On the trees and IN the trees…

Of course my sister found it…

It… being a hollow nail with a tiny log roll in a pole, she tried to keep it on the down low, but everyone saw…

I saw a few fun things…

(I have some COOL brother in laws. This being one of the ten…)

So what do you think?

 Are you ready to go search for some tupperware in the woods?

We were on our way. We waited patiently until 12:58…

This was the veiw on the way in…

We had our Red Wings, Tigers and Pistons paraphernalia.

The boys are typical boys.

Soon there were a few here…

and a few there…

No one talking to each other…

Then at one a girl with a bucket walked to the middle of the square…

She set the bucket down and the cry “CARDS!” went out.

People started pouring out of the buildings and side entrances…

There was chatter here and chatter there.

Food in the form of Blow Pops was distributed to every individual.

Muggles (non geocachers) stood on the edge of the crowd gawking and craning their necks trying to figure out what was happening.

Took the buddy shot while D networked with friends.

Took a quick group shot.

The time was called as 1:13…

A quick drawing for a flash mob coin was done and then it was 1:15.

A group “BYE” was given and we dispersed.

Not two minutes later the square went back to looking like

THIS…

It was fun, took almost no time out of our day and we got to confuse people.

It was a good day.

I actually have a back up posts for a change.

A glass blowing experience, ArtoMat visit and more DOORS.

Hope you guys enjoyed the flash mob!

Next time I’ll meet you there!

I thought maybe you all would like to find a cache.

This one is called Adam’s fly…

Imagine we’re down by the river, walking a footpath riddled with the hazards of winter in the woods… 
rabbit and deer droppings.

Ewww…

The clue is: A fly fisherman knows this well…

So we are searching the trees and bushes along the bank…

Can you see it?

We only did eight caches today, not many, but when we are dragging the Three’s along,

things tend to go a little slow.

Not that they aren’t speedy when they want to be.

It was more difficult today because everything was slippery and dangerous.

The first cache we went to was behind the State Hospital…

One of my favorite places to take pictures.

I found a few winter hold outs.

The first cache of the day found…

A fallen tree is always a given for a location.

D and the Samster goofin while they wait for us slow pokes.

SO?

Did you find the cache up above yet?

?

?

?

Here ya go…

A micro, just large enough for a log and a teeny, tiny pencil.

It was cleverly shaped like a fishing fly and hooked over a branch.

Oh this was a FTF… First to find!

They Love giving me the finger.

That’s a big deal!

Give yourself a pat on the back.

Oh I was instructed that if I was to use this picture I had to point out that makeup is not essential to your geocaching success.

Now you can pretend you are signing the log by using my comment section…

Don’t forget to put your caching team name and the time and date you found it. 

We are:

Fin and Feathers- (my Pop)

Team Sammy Pants- (D and Sam)

&

The Coop Troop- (Charlie, Isabelle, Cooper and me)

WHAT WOULD YOUR GEOCACHING NAME BE?

Hope you all are having a great Easter Weekend.

To be continued!

Oh the agony…

My Sister and My Sammy are coming up!

I am so excited!

You know what this means?
I am positive that some GEOCACHING will be done…

I will be a tag along again!

The picture possibilities are endless!

I hope My Sammy brought his camera!

I AM SO EXCITED!

Can you tell?

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Yea! They’re  here and Sam brought his camera!

Let the games begin!

Our day isn’t even half over and already we had a full one.

Started by meeting my family for breakfast and saying good bye t my Lil Sis and the Sam man.

They were headed back to Detroit.

Our trip for a boat ride was foiled because something is wrong with Pop’s boat
I’m sure it will be quickly fixed though, It’s that time of year and Pop without a boat is like a fish without water.

So we went to the cemeteries to visit.

On the way we made a quick stop in Elk Rapids.

I love that my children humor me.

When we were done with our visits we went to a great junk shop.

Yes it is literally a junk shop. It’s always hit and miss as to when it will be open.

I bought some insulators for a dollar each so that I can put them on copper pipes in the herb garden.

Like he did here with broom sticks.

What do you think?

What kind of funky yard stuff do you have? or like?

On the way home I noticed my Sister’s car on the side of the road.

I knew what she was doing immediately. Yup, she was getting a cache.

How could we not join her?

She found it and then was nice enough to let the kids look, Charlie found it first.

Unfortunately, the cache was in a swamp and I was wearing flip flops

This is yet again an example of how D and I are night and day.

She is ALWAYS prepared…

See prepared and stylish.

She has thee pairs… when I visit next time she may be down to two… hehehe

Since we were in the swamp already Ben and the kids collected some critters for the water garden.

We brought home four but there were tons there, it made me feel good to see all of them.

Our water garden is coming together, now if the lilies will just root.

We once again said goodbye to my Sis.

Then on the way home we passed this.  A wonderful and sad reminder of what day it is.

It is a field of flags… put up by The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Chippewa indians. I think there is one flag for each member of the Tribe who has served and died in service of our country.

There were about three times the amount of flags that I have in the photo above.

There are lights situated around the field and I’m sure that tonight it will be lit up.

I bet that will be beautiful.
Happy Memorial day.

THANK YOU to all of the Veterans and their families.

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GEOCACHING

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The joke is that geocaching is when you use millions of dollars worth of satalites…

to find a piece of tupperware in the woods.

I found a body in the woods.

The search is on.

Mat found it first.

Treasure lies within.

Mat logs the team name…Team SammyPants, D decides what Travel Bugs they can take to a different cache.