Goin' on a Treasure Hunt!

Well, it all started last year at TCEA, in my quest to bring something back to the GT kids I was working with last year, and something new and exciting to do with my own passel of kids. I learned a little bit about geocaching there, a whole year ago, and even purchased a Garmin eTrex HC, and Geocaching for Dummies. I also apparently joined Geocaching.com, but then got over-whelmed, and never got the GPS out of the box.

Twelve months later, and another class at TCEA, by some very talented and knowledgable geocachers plus a new iPhone geocaching app, and 30 minutes after I'd driven home from Austin, I'd found my first cache. A skirt lifter. Do you all know about skirt lifters?

I'm sometimes known for my spontaneous decisions, so what could be more fun, than to hide my OWN geocache....at the beach....WOO HHEEE!!

Twenty-four hours after returning from TCEA, I'd not only figured out how to use my Garmin, and my iPhone app, but had prepared and hidden a cache, and had it published on Geocaching.com. If you're interested, it's at N 29° 27.793 W 094° 36.715. (GC23Y72)

It's now been 72 hours...and the kids and I've found about 5, visited about 10 (couldn't find some, or some were missing), and have found something so totally fun to do.  The girls are the ones that are the adventurous ones...we've found one behind CVS, and one drilled into a tree on the side of Eldridge road. They're fighting over who gets to navigate...how cool is that.

So, what to do now? I've just thought of an ingenous way to hide their Easter treasures! They've have to navigate to them with the GPS!! I've already bought the water- proof containers.....(he he he)