Sunday, May 28

Geocaching in Fort Steilacoom Park

The day before I had an itch to finally organize and clean out our garage.  It took me about 6 hours, it was hot and I had a shelf fall on me and hurt my arm but I am glad I got it done.  It looks so much better!

Ben hasn't seen some of his "up north" friends for a while, mostly because of his work schedule, and his friend Jeremey invited him out for his birthday. It was a three-part birthday party.  For weeks Ben couldn't decide if he wanted to go so that delayed my Memorial Day Weekend plans.  We couldn't decide where to go so we decided to stay home and take a day trip instead.  This was the first time in at least 20 years where Memorial Day Weekend was actually sunny and warm.

Jeremey's birthday consisted of a guys late afternoon stint at BoomShaka, an extreme air sports/trampoline place in Tumwater.  We've thought about going to this place for a while but we could never decide on a date to go with everyone for a game night.  Ben met them around 11 while I hung out at home and got a few things done.  They ate at the RAM in Lakewood in which the power went out and they got complimentary drinks and I was suppose to meet Ben at Fort Steilacoom where they were going to play ultimate Frisbee.  I decided not to partake in the ultimate Frisbee because I was just not a fan of it.  I went geocaching instead.

Ben and his friends got warmed up to play and I told Ben I was going to wander around looking for a few caches.  He told me to have fun and I told him to have fun and not get soooper sun burnt.  I set off for my first one, Farming Legacy (GC5RKF2).  I spent a lot of time here looking for it.  I knew where it was and what it was but I just could not get it off its hiding spot.  I called Bev to verify that's what it was.  She said it probably was but it's been a while since they found that one.  I called it quits and decided to come back another time with a tool to help twist it off.


I walked over to the next one, Ghostbusters - I Ain't Afraid of no Ghosts! (GC2AR3V) and found it near the cemetery.  It was pretty straight forward...tucked under the bushes near the headstones.


I checked the status of the next closest one, PET ME- PET ME! (A two finger cache) (GC6KV25) and it had a lot of DNF's so I didn't attempted it.  It was near the dog park. Hindsight I probably should have at least looked and confirmed that it was missing.

I was glad to see someone had found the next cache recently as I was walking towards it.  A lot of people were pretty impressed with the creativity of Just Go Find It (GC6N34W).  My curiosity got the best of me.  I was hoping it was pretty cool.  When I got to it I was pretty disappointed.  I've seen caches like this before but to a newer cacher I could see how this would be cool.  I walked right up to it.


I thought I had time for about one more so I continued walking towards the edge of the park.  Hidden Clues and Secrets (GC5PN6Z) was pretty hidden.  I searched everywhere and couldn't find anything.  It was either hidden pretty well or it was missing.  I put in a good 15 minutes or so of looking and called it quits.  I'm sure we will be back to Steilacoom at some point.  I will have to wait until next time.  I walked back to the fields where Ben and his friends were playing and I had some great timing.  They were taking their shoes and socks off and guzzling water.  It had to have been at least 80+ degrees outside.  I talked to a few of his friends before everyone scattered.  We told Jeremey happy birthday again and thanked him for inviting us.  He told us that we would have to do it again soon sometime.

We headed home because we had to get ready to go to Orcas Island the next day.  We had to have everything packed up and ready to go because 5 a.m. is very very early.  We ate some food, got cleaned up and relaxed for a bit.  We looked at the ferry times, maps of Orcas Island and which caches we wanted to get while we were there.  We made sure we had our Discovery Pass since we were going to visit Moran State Park and Mount Constitution.  I was excited but I knew it was going to be a long day.

Next Adventure: A Day Trip to Orcas Island

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