My mom heard about it and wanted to go out and see it. I checked out the area to see if there were any more caches I needed to get and there were a few in the Mima area. I got home, changed and headed towards my parent's house. Mom had gotten off work later than she wanted so we had to stop at the new Eagen's in Tenino so she could get a burger. I ate at work and worked on the bulletin board with Suzanne so I wasn't hungry.
We stopped just outside of Tenino to get a new one by the trestle and the Welcome to Tenino waterfall structure. I had been here once before with mom to grab one here over 4 years ago. It's weird how you can get a different cache at the same place over and over. Mills Summer Camp II (GC6NFAH) was pretty easy to find but it's at a busy intersection that people can totally see you. I tried to do it in between cars to make me less suspicious. It was a small lock n lock container hidden in a tree crotch. It signed my name at the nearby picnic table and put it back while mom sat in the car eating her burger.
We followed 'Ol 99 to 183rd, then took Sergeant Road to Littlerock Road. We continued on to the town of Littlerock and then turned onto Mima Road then to Bordeaux where we found a place to pull over and park off the road. I haven't been out here when there were leaves on the trees. It looks very different during the late summer early fall. There were some cars here as well. Probably kids hanging out at the ruins.
We grabbed our stuff, hid our valuables and followed the trail to the bridge. I made sure I had my selfie stick. This time there were boards missing from the bridge but the bridge was dry. You had to really be careful where you stepped or you would step into Mima Creek. Mom followed be along the trail. You couldn't see the ruins with all the leaves on the trees. Last time you could see everything from the bridge. We walked past two kids walking their dog heading back towards the vehicles. Mom started taking pictures when we entered the area with the most standing set of ruins. We saw two teenage kids inside smoking pot. We waited until they left to go inside and get our pictures so we explored the outer area of the ruins.
I brought my jerseys and mom's jersey so we could do a photo shoot and practice different settings, angles and lighting with the camera. The pot kids left so we went inside and started taking pictures with our phones and our good camera. I had her take a couple of me in my Cougar jersey and then some in my Seahawk jersey. I made her get hers on so we could get a few together. We were there for about a half hour. Then we explored the area by the creek for a few minutes watching mom take a series of photos.
We walked back across the bridge and headed towards the Escape. I remembered there was a block house on the other side of the road for mom to go and explore. She took several pictures of that as well. We decided to head out so we could get one more cache near the town of Mima, inside of a cemetery that was very well hidden. I put the coordinates into the GPS and had Nuvi lead the way.
Spirit Quest - Mima Prairie Pioneer Cemetery (GC4ZDKT) was indeed a pretty well hidden cemetery. I had no idea one was even out here and I've been out here a few times in the past. We got off the main road and turned onto a dirt road. We parked as close as we could to the cache. I went and found the cache and mom wandered around the old pioneer cemetery taking pictures and reading tombstones. I knew where the cache was going to be. There was a giant tree and the obvious pile of sticks hiding the container. I grabbed it and it was covered in pitch. Ugh! Sticky hands! I signed our names and put it back.
We got back into the Escape, drove through Mima and followed the road all the way to Moon and then we got onto Hwy 12 and drove through Rochester and then Grand Mound. We headed down 'Ol 99 into Tenino and took a pit stop down 507 to DJ's. About a month or so ago I noticed a Seahawks logo painted on the fence near the store. I wanted to get a picture there. I thought it would be a really awesome mother-daughter picture with our jerseys.
I took mom the back way home through Skookumchuck and Johnson Creek Road. Mom told me stories about Alice's Restaurant. We got home shortly after. I put the pictures we took off of her camera and onto my computer so I had them. I went back to my house and did a few things before it was time to go to bed. We were going to get up the next day and help mom and dad fall a few trees in the back yard.
Next Adventure: Placing my Rainier100 4 Series Caches
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