I went back upstairs and continued what I was doing. It was well beyond breakfast time and we needed to find some food soon whether we made it at the house or went into town and grabbed something. Amy would be home soon from work. For the past few months she has been driving herself to and from work in the truck. It saves Trish a lot of driving back and forth to her job to take Amy to and from work. It was nice to see that Amy could do it for herself to save Trish a lot of time from missing work and having to make it up.
Ben finally came upstairs and we chatted a bit on what we wanted for food. We both decided that it was a bit late for breakfast so we got our shoes on and headed into Bonney Lake to get sandwiches from Jersey Mike's. I got a turkey and cheddar and he got himself a club with everything on it toasted. I am glad we got there when we did because a million people decided they wanted sandwiches too. We paid and headed back to the house. We had tortilla chips and drinks at home so we didn't need that extra expense.
We sat at the table and a few bites in Amy showed up from work. She immediately went over to the pantry and ate some sort of a breakfast type bar instead of having an actual lunch. We gave her a hard time about it. Meanwhile I checked the internet to find out how to get to the park at Chambers Bay. I wanted to put a lock on the fence for Ben's birthday. We had asked Trish if she had any extra locks we could have. She found two and we spent some of the morning decorating them with dates, names, etc. They looked pretty good using Sharpie instead of nail polish.
Ben asked Amy to turn the TV off to talk about her boyfriend, Greg. We just wanted to know more about him. She took offense because their relationship became pretty rocky up to this point. We knew he was lying to her based off of the information we have received from her so far. We asked her a series of questions and she did not want to answer any of them. She kept yelling PLEASE! Then would shut down and stare at her phone. We both decided not to press the situation any further.
It was getting late and it still was getting dark around 5. I told Ben if we wanted to go to Chamber's Bay we would have to start getting our stuff together to leave. I went downstairs and started putting our stuff together. I made the bed and took everything upstairs and put everything into the Escape. I got him motivated to go so we could stop at the park on our way home. I knew it was going to get dark soon. We told Amy bye and we would see her again soon. We took the DVD we borrowed from Redbox back before we headed down the hill into Sumner. We got onto River Road in Puyallup and followed it to I-5. We took the appropriate exit and followed Nuvi's directions to the park.
Chamber's Bay was the location of the US Open golf championships back in June 2015. I was so thankful I was not working at the hotel at that point. The previous month I was let go and never looked back. I wasn't sure where to go when we got there so we followed the signs and drove down a long hill towards the Puget Sound. I saw the parking lot and found a spot to park. I grabbed our locks, phones and keys and headed out towards the bridge. The weather could have been better but it was late winter and this time of year the weather is very sporadic. It was a light rainy mist and in the upper 50's.
We walked the bridge to find a good spot for our locks. I had one and Ben had one. I told him he could put it anywhere he wanted along the bridge. I found my spot.
We walked further down the bridge to find a good spot for his lock. He found a corner and locked it in place. We could see Fox and McNeil Island from the end of the bridge. The rain had subsided the rest of the time we were at the park. It was nice to not be rained on but the daylight was going away fast.
I wanted to go explore the grounds. The park featured some really cool structures that I am glad they didn't tear down when they converted the land into a golf course/park. The structures were pretty cool. One of them reminded me of Star Wars.
We saw there was a cache nearby, 4 Leg Monster (GC1WMFV) and headed over to it. It was near some ruin looking cement structures and we started looking for it. We didn't end up finding it because it was obvious that it was missing. The last time it was found was during the Tacoma Cache Machine in January. We will have to come back to find it when it is replaced.
It was getting dark and the facility would soon come by and close the gate. We didn't want to get stuck here. We walked back to the Escape and headed home through Steilacoom and the back way through Dupont. We got onto I-5 there and got off at Marvin to head towards home. We got home just before 7, made a quick dinner, started a load of laundry and got ready for the new week. The weekend was fun but I know Ben would have liked to do something else besides geocaching and hanging out with his family. I'm hoping next year we could do plan some sort of trip instead.
Next Adventure: St. Patrick's Day Paint Night
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