We left at 8:00 just to be sure we get there on time. You never know what's gonna happen on your way up to Seattle. We allowed a large cushion. Surprisingly, the traffic was minimal and we got there in record time...with a lot of time to spare. We used that time to find a parking spot and to visit the vendors. I knew two of the vendors. Lisa, with Cache Advance and Mr. Attwell, from Colorado with Cache Addict. I met him while attending his event near Denver back in February. We saw Frisbee'r and Countrygirl. We stood in line for the Groundspeak coins, wandered over to Lisa's tent to get a few things and then went through the geocaching museum, which contained some cool stuff and even the travel bug who has been in space, before heading out to find the five unpublished caches around Freemont. We even got to do the the puzzle piece challenges like they had us do last year. These ones were easier than the ones from 2011.
We headed off towards the furthest one out from the block party. It made sense to go west and then come back east towards Groundspeak. We found our challenges and caches with ease. It only took us about an hour fifteen to finish it. The first cache was at the outdoor Fremont theater and the first challenge was across the street by the chocolate factory. We were to draw and color a rendition of our own take on Signal, the frog. We were to pin it up on the board when we were done. We received our puzzle piece.
We headed east on the next block down. We grabbed the cache near the rocket and headed to the Burke-Gilman Trail, where our next challenges were. One was find Signal, similar to Where's Waldo? We had to find two other lackey's as well. We earned our next puzzle piece.
The next cache was a plastic boat with a micro in it, floating in the Lake Union boat canal, followed by another challenge where we had to fish for frogs. We had a magnet on our fishing pole and there were washers on the frogs. We had to take them to the volunteers and got our third puzzle piece. We headed to the next cache and the final challenge near the Aurora Bridge. There, we had to blow up a balloon and pop it without our hands or feet, I used my knee. We had to present the broken balloon to the volunteer for our fourth and final puzzle piece. We saw Ohjoy, JacksonClan, Sunnydae and other familiar faces at the balloon challenge. We headed up the road to the Block Party.
Bob and I walked up to the troll for our fifth and final cache. We headed back down to the party to get our tag for finishing the challenges and the caches. We received a Block Party tag and for finishing our caches we got a Signal headband.
At that point it was 12:15, almost picture time. We couldn't have timed that any better. We had ample time for both events. 12:30 rolled around and we were front and center in the picture, mostly so we could find ourselves in the huge crowd.
We said goodbye to Fremont and headed over I-90 towards Bellevue.
We got to the church at about 1:20. We had enough time to change into our nice clothes and shoes before going into the church. I talked to my cousin Derek for a while. He was wearing his Marine uniform, he was going to walk Angela down the aisle. Mom and dad arrive shortly after. We found our seats and watched the ceremony. It was short.
We made our way downstairs to the reception. We had chocolates, punch and cupcakes. My orange one tasted a lot like orange fruit loops. Since we really didn't know anyone else we headed out and cached around Bellevue a little bit before heading home. We got about 10 caches today all together, not including the 5 unpublished fake caches.
Next: Ape Event, Snoqualmie Pass.
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