We found Rocks...What Rocks? in someone's front yard in a rock wall. We figured they had to be geocachers.
We took Carl to Between Bridges II a. and tried looking for Between Bridges II b. and could not find it because it wasn't there. We had to find one before we left Wenatchee, Ottima Cucina was under a lamp post skirt.
We decided to get gas from the 7-11 so we could make it to Leavenworth and home. When I think, see or hear of 7-11 my mind goes slurpees! I went in and got a cherry slurpee. We headed out west towards Leavenworth. I haven't been there in years. We mostly went for the webcam cache, Bavarian Village.
We are the three people in the lower right hand corner behind the camper.
We walked around town a little bit.
We found The Sneaky Bavarian Micro near some hotels. We met up with a few more geocachers and chatted for a bit.
Next we went down to Black Bird Island and found two, Black Bird Island and Der Cache 3. There was still snow on the ground in some places.
We walked down to Area 51 and tried looking for it. We couldn't find it anywhere. We moved on to Jennifer's Poem. We walked to the museum near the edge of the river and found the hard way down, haha. We got to the banks and found the plaque. We read the poem and glanced to our left and right out in the open was the cache. We signed it, put it back and admired the river.
We decided to head out. We walked back to the cars, chatted with Carl for a bit and got some food before leaving town towards 97. We went over the pass again and this time it wasn't snowing. Derek's mom called and we couldn't understand anything due to the spotting service. We got into Cle Elum and decided to find a few in Kittitas County. We stopped at Dairy Queen and used their WiFi to download caches that we didn't have. The one at the Mexican restaurant, Welcome to Hicktown, was thrown away by the owner because he didn't know what it was. We went for MP Ponds, under the freeway down a back road. We got to the location and there was a car sitting there. We guessed they're either lost or a geocacher. A woman and a little boy got out of the car. They were geocachers who had just recently gotten into it. We talked to them for a little bit. Found out they were from the Cle Elum area and they were going to Ocean Shores this next week.
We got back on the free way and wondered how many were on Snoqualmie Pass. There was too much snow to even attempt it. We moved onto Snoqualmie before it got dark. We rolled into North Bend and I have not been past the gas stations, fast food places or the outlet malls. I was curious what was beyond it. I really want to hike Mt. Si at some point, I found out where the trail head was. We got into the town of Snoqualmie and bam, lots of trains. I told Derek we'd come back after the falls to get a few pictures with the trains.
It was too hard to see the falls. It was too misty. I would probably come back in the summer to get a better view. We decided to find the cache across the bridge. We fumbled on the clue and went the completely wrong way. We got our bearings and found it at the end of the bridge near the parking lot.
I reminded Derek that it was getting dark quickly and if he wanted pictures of the train we'd have to go now. We left the falls and headed towards the trains. We parked in the parking lot and walked over. We found a huge log and we each took a picture with it. I found out later that log was a virtual cache, so glad I was curious and checked it out.
Derek got his picture with the train. He was excited about it.
We got back to Rainier around 9:00 and we stayed and chatted for a bit about the trip and the weekend. The next cache machine is June in Portland, Ore. I can't wait!
Derek is at 300 and I am at 436.
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