Caching

Look who came to visit!! Cory had a couple of days off in a row from her job as a waitress at The Wentworth and she decided to come play with us. John could not get the time off from work with such short notice on that Thursday and Friday, so we were almost happy to find that her car had a flat tire when she was preparing to leave Friday night. She stayed another night. John got the tire plugged for her in the morning and enjoyed his "bonus" time with her too. We went to the beach on Thursday as well as a short visit with Ken & Louise and another short visit with Laurie, Rob & baby Hannah. Cory proved more daring than I as she did get swimming with her brothers. I only waded out to my belly. It's so much more difficult to get in these days!

On Friday I asked the kids if they'd like to do a "quick" cache on the trails near our house to drop off a Jeep Travel Bug that we had. This 'easy 2 mile walk on level trails' ended up having an unintended bushwhack when we realized we were on the wrong trail. The kids had great fun teasing me about that!! Note: now I'm very thankful for all those bushwhacks through the woods with my dad. I have no fear of doing that, and a very good sense of direction from his teaching it over the years. The boys are now developing this skill.
Andrew found the cache and grinning, carried it to us . We all traded trinkets with the cache and enjoyed this beautiful "beach" spot way out along the branch river. The cache would be very easy to arrive at by canoe or kayak (or correct trail).
Large rocks attract boys, naturally. Cory was "good" on the ground and I took advantage of the photo op. Tide enjoyed wading around in the river. We were very lucky that he did not see the deer cross the trail in front of us on our way in. Cory & I did. Another went crashing through the woods on our way back out, but Tide was on the leash for that one. He thouroughly enjoyed the walk. In case you are noticing in the photo...Benjamin has a granola bar in his mouth. He refused to take it out for the camera.

We are really enjoying caching together (geocaching.com) whenever we can. I'm pleased that we were able to bring Cory along for this one. It really was an easy walk...even if it was more than 2 miles.

~Rachel