While we were out west to catch a kiddie show, we whipped out the gps and found Claude Moore park was full of caches. The first we ended up coming on from the back of the trail, but the walk past the ponds was really pretty. We rooted around in a spot just on the trail with a bunch of downed trees and eventually spotted the big cache tucked under some stacked sticks. There were trinkets galore and Aiden exchanged a Batman pen for a bracelet Gran made.
Then in a crazy moment while carrying my gigantic heavy bowling ball baby bouncing on my chest I looked up the next cache on the list. It claimed to be less than 200 feet away and the description said it was a short hike. Many more steps later we were standing near this huge oak tree (the description claimed George Washington marched his troops past it). Aiden nearly stuck his whole head inside a crack in the tree base, but no dice. We stepped farther back and it was tucked in between low branches with stones and random bones (which we couldn't really identify?). Aiden was an enthusiastic scout leader on the way back to the visitor center. We relaxed and played games in their kid's room. KC loved watching the crazy turtle that was throwing rocks around underwater. Then it was time for some Friendly's - ice cream is a good reward!
Since this day, we found one more in VA (it was a really cool one I don't want to share yet because I want J to come with us to try to find it) and TEN here in Ohio!! My sister and I went on a cruise in the 'geovan' for these "park and grabs" and both the boys fell asleep - ha! The perfect nap time finding some urban caches without having to leave the van while Liz, the new geocache addict, jumped out to grab them. It's fun to have a VA and OH souvenir badge on my geo online account now ;)
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