Sounded good so far...
He continued by saying that the cache I was in search of was in Eatonville. I was stoked. It was an awesome cache and it was less than twenty miles from my house. I began planning.
The past few months we've been working on the puzzles in town we haven't found yet. Those were also on the list of ones to do while we were there.
I got Bob and Bev on board, got a hold of Jeremy and Shaundra and Derek came along too. We took two cars because we came from different places and we met up at the store in McKenna. We put the coords into the GPS and I could not wait to get there. I was too excited.
We got to the cache zone and I immediately got out of the car and started looking. Indeed, the cache found me before I found it.
I was so excited I took a bunch of photos. It was cold but fun wandering through the woods.
After getting our Slimer on, we headed towards town to do a few others we had on our list. First we stopped at the grocery store on the corner of Hwy 161 and the Eatonville Cut Off. There was one across the road underneath an abandoned median block. A few of us ran over and grabbed that one.
Onto Eatonville we go!
The first one we went for was one we solved over a year ago. It was part of the Mario series. It was an easy find once you figured out how to navigate through the new housing development. The cacher that put this series together was pretty creative.
Bev wanted to do Mainstreet: Eatonville, Washington puzzle. This one took us to several places down main street. We had to match the pictures with the symbols on the buildings in town. We didn't know one of the pictures was changed but luckily I had a smart phone with me to find the correct picture.
And then it started snowing.
That didn't stop us. We did have to regroup when we made a wrong turn down the wrong road.
We figured it out and made our way back to where we needed to go. We came across a local who was very chatty. We were talking about how small the town was and we were over heard by one of the locals who told us a little bit about the town. He started off with, do you know why the population stays the same up here? A girl gets pregnant and the guy leaves. Then he added, if the girl is pregnant with twins, two guys leave. Oh small town humor. Yay Eatonville!
We didn't realize the walk to the final would take as long as it did. We made our way to a small park north of town and we were freezing. We found it after checking a few wrong spots. The next cache took us to the cemetery. We misinterpreted it a few times but managed to do the math right on the back of my hand. We found the cache quickly.
We were cold and hungry and stopped by Bruno's, (http://www.eatbrunos.com/ ) a local restaurant, just down the street. We all ordered burgers and fries and enjoyed each others company. About an hour later, we found two more before heading back home for the evening. Both were part of the Mario series.
The final to the Super Mario Geocaching: The Incredible Rescue took us from Eatonville to Hwy 7 off of a old logging road that is now fenced off. Jeremy, Bob, Derek and I went after that one while Bev and Shaundra stayed by the cars. We said our goodbyes and all went home to get warm. Until the next time.
Next Adventure: Snowmageddon 2012
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