The Lottery - Christmas Present 2013

I saw the cache publish the night before but it was too late to go get it.  It was at LBA park and there is a pretty strict rule about going into a place after hours.  The cache owner, Ohjoy, is a stickler about going for a FTF in the dark inside a park.  Mostly for a safety thing.  Some cachers went out and grabbed it that night but didn't get the FTF because they didn't follow the rules.  I called Bob and Bev and asked if they wanted to go out tomorrow morning and grab it.  They said yes and would be over around 8.

It was very cold that morning so I wore all of my warm gear.  I saw their car heading down the driveway and I ran to grab my tripod for the camera because I thought it might come in handy.  Kenny joined us for our hunt this morning.  We got into town and made our way to LBA.  We parked in the main lot and followed the sidewalk to a void in the fence that took us into the forest with many trails.  We followed the GPS and the mini trails.  Majority of the time her caches will follow the trails to avoid bushwacking.  Bev and I got to the spot and walked past it.  Kenny made the find.  It was an ammo box with 50 Christmas cards in it.  We were to chose one each.  Each of them had a number on it.  We were to report the number on our log for a chance to win prizes.  We saw we were FTF because we waited until morning, we signed our names, discovered the trackables and I even left two TB's behind for someone else to take.  We took a picture just for fun.

We stopped for one more near the gate of LBA on the way out because Kenny hadn't gotten that one yet.  They dropped my off at home and I took a short nap and continued on with the rest of my day at work.

On December 7 my number was chosen for a prize.

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