I overheard someone on Facebook talking about the egg and that the Seahawks logo would be painted on both sides of the egg with the number 12 on the remaining sides. It was going to be painted on Saturday, January 25th. It was featured on the local news that evening. We had planned to drive down that Sunday.
We slept in until about 11 that morning. We had been up late the night before at Nicole's house for game night, where we had lots of cheese, bacon and beer. We got home around 2 a.m. I got motivated to get up, get dressed and ate something fast. It took me a while to get Ben up but once he was up he got excited for our mini day excursion. We made sure not to leave the house without our NFC Championship shirts. I got a quick query together so we had them on the GPS just in case his phone died during our hunt.
And we were off!
We went to the egg in Winlock first and then went from there. I honestly didn't know how many people would actually be there to take pictures of the Seahawk egg. We pulled in and no one was there. We started walking towards the egg and everyone seemed to be showing up at the exact same time. We got a few pictures in before the small crowd it. The artist even painted the rooster Seahawk colors. We were patient and waited for our next round of pictures. We had a great time.
It was even sunny and warm. I could have worn shorts!
We grabbed a few caches on our way back towards the freeway. We found Take it to the Limit, a nano on the back of a speed limit sign and Waiting in the Weeds, a nut container hiding behind a log. We stopped at the gazebo near the gas station and got that one. I've been here once before to get the one that used to be here. It was archived and a new one was put in its place, Snackzebo. That one was exactly in the same place as the other one. After we signed it and put it back, a couple from Oregon said hi and asked what we were doing. We told them we were geocaching and they said they've actually heard of it. They asked us a few general questions and then they were on their way back to the freeway. We moved on to the Toledo side of the freeway.
The first few were ones I found with Bob and Bev about a year or so ago. I let Ben find them. They were a bunch of caches put out by Bearsandme. Then we took a short bathroom break and we were out finding them again. The next three took us towards the small community of Toledo, a place I have cached in the past. Of course if you haven't been there in a while new ones publish all the time. They didn't take us long to find. One of the caches took me to a place I use to play fastpitch when I was in high school. We always lost to them. I don't think I ever won a game at that field.
The next one took us to a historical sight called Cowlitz Mission. "With an elaborate program, a beautiful tablet was erected on Cowlitz Prairie on May 11, 1926, to mark the site of the Cowlitz Mission of 1838 and the first Catholic Church in what is now the State of Washington." We arrived at a sign that explained a short history of the area. Ben found the cache right away. He opened it and nothing was inside of it. I donated one of my film canisters and log books so the owner didn't have to come out and add a log book. We continued up the Jackson Hwy. We drove past the skydiving place and thought it would be fun to go and do one day.
We got to Lewis and Clark State park and would have stopped to get him his first state park cache but we didn't have his passport with him. Also that morning some caches published inside the park by Rocketglider. We will have to come back one day and do them when it's warmer.
We grabbed a few more along the side roads and one that paralleled I-5.
We got onto Hwy 12 and found MoGas and two more by Bearsandme. Than completed our day and just before it got dark. We were hungry and decided to drive to McMenamins, one of the many between Olympia and Oregon. I've been to a few but not the one in Centraila. This one was called the Olympic Club. I remember their food being delicious. I tried the Ruby Ale. We both had burgers and enjoyed our time there.
http://www.mcmenamins.com/
Then we headed home the back way through Bucoda. We got home and shared our pictures with everyone and logged our caches. It was a fun day.
Next Adventure: Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Parade
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