Geocaching

I have read about geocaching for some time and thought it would be fun, but never got around to doing it. Today the kids and I went on a nature hike with our county conservationist and about 5 other families. We hiked in an area called Whiting Woods and learned to use the handheld GPS units to find the Geocaches. It was a LOT of FUN!!! I think we are hooked..

There were 3 different caches in Whiting Woods and then we hiked back to the trailhead and ate our brownbag lunches. When I finished my lunch, I realized that I had lost my hat (and it was sunny and 88 degrees today, so I didn't want to get my face burned to a crisp), so in order to not hold up the rest of the group from driving to our next destination, I hoofed it back up the trail to the last Geocache we found. Mostly it was UPHILL and I was in a hurry....And now I know, just how hopelessly out of shape I really am..... I got back to the cache and didn't see my cap ( a leather baseball cap) and so I turned around dejectedly, thinking I walked all that way for nothing and my calves we "mooing" and my lungs were "burning". I walked about 5 feet back and there it was on the opposite side.

So since it was nearly all downhill, I hoofed it back (without burning lungs), just as everyone was finishing their lunch (and their catching of dragonlflies). We drove a few more miles to the Sylvan Runkle Nature Preserve and hiked up 238 feet in elevation. I will post pictures a bit later, but the view was breathtaking. And I can guarantee you, that we will all. sleep. well. tonight!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, I guess I better look into some type of fitness program.......so this isn't repeated the next time I want to take a hike.

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth! Really!

Many of you probably gave up on coming by my blog to see if I had written anything. Life is incredibly busy around here. It is not that there hasn't been newsworthy (or rather blogworthy) happenings. It's just hard to keep up when life is moving at the speed of light.

I hope you will give me another chance and I promise to post something worth your time. We have a new horse, a new dog, we took a field trip to the Blue Bunny Ice Cream factory, a vacation to Colorado to visit friends, plus a bagillion other things we've been doing this summer.

Since we started school, we've been involved in a science coop (with a total of 30 kids!) that is going great! Will be posting some photos from that when we get our projects finished. I may blog about the entire unit we are doing and then when we finish the other unit, we can show you the rest of our projects, experiments, etc.

Right now, I've got a basil plant that I have had in water since Friday (and I MUST GO MAKE PESTO!!!!). I'll let you know how that turns out, okay?