A couple days before the weekend I asked Bev if she wanted to do some of the new Lab Aventure caches that popped up in Tenino and Millersylvania over the past couple days. I told her the weather was supposed to be nice -- something we've been waiting for! She said yes and we really needed to get out of the house since the weather had been keeping us indoors for the past couple weeks. We were all getting very tired of it!
Ben had planned a Mother's Day out with Trish and Amy up to Port Townsend and stayed in an AirBnB that was a docked boat! I was kinda jealous. He said he and his family were having a great time!
I woke up around 9:30, got ready, ate a quick breakfast, packed up the recycle into the Escape and could not believe how nice of a day it was finally! I called Bev to let her know I was on my way and should be there around 10:30ish. She said that sounded good and she would be ready when I got there.
I got into Rainier and stopped by the recycle. It took me a couple minutes to dump off my stuff. Then, I headed out to Vail and picked up Bev. She was ready to go so she told Bob she'd be back later on, and we headed back into Rainier. We drove towards Tenino and Bev asked if we could stop at one of her caches along the way. I said sure, which one? We pulled over near a driveway, got out and walked the short distance to a Regular Good Hide/TB Hotel (GC3GR0J). Bev recently picked up some TB's and wanted to drop them off. Since she uses Cachly, it was hard for me to figure out how to drop them off at the cache on that app, but we did eventually find a way to drop them.
We got back in the Escape and continued on to Tenino. A few days prior, Frisbee'r created his Adventure Lab, Tenino Sandstone History Tour, and decided to put it in Tenino with the sandstone theme. I already knew of some of the places we were going to have to go. The old Oregon Trail Marker, Tenino City Hall, Old Tenino Bank, Tenino Quarry Pool and the Tenino Depot with a bonus cache afterwards. Bev and I made quick work of the Adventure Lab and had the coordinates to the final in no time. For some reason I knew he would put it in the park where the large pieces of sandstone were stacked up. I remember playing on those when I was a kid, many years ago.
We walked back to the Escape and headed the back way through Tenino to Tilley Road. Once on Tilley Road, we made our way to Millersylvania State Park. We had to check on my state park cache, WaStatePks100: Millersylvania (GC4D5B9). I've had to check on this cache a few times since 2013. We grabbed the first point of the Adventure Lab, Millersylvania State Park by magtangle, upon entry. There were a lot of people getting their fishing stuff out to spend time on the lake.
Then we drove further into the park to find a parking spot. I figured we could do maintenance on my cache and do the rest of the waypoints as we walked around. We did the orchard second, the kitchen shelter, found my cache inside the stump and the last person who found it didn't put it back very well, cleaned it out and put a new logbook and baggie inside, rehid it and hoped that it would stay put for a while.
Bev and I walked to the boat launch area of Deep Lake to do that waypoint and it took us a long time to figure out the combo of words we were supposed to use for the answer on the app. We were there for probably 10 minutes inputting answers. Finally, one of them took. Our last stop was the boardwalk, which was at the sign, and it was a quick stop and log.
We wrote down the bits of coordinates in each journal entry and assembled them. We looked to see where the bonus cache was, and it was three miles away. Was that right? We were skeptical. We got back in the Escape and made our way to Bonus Cache - Millersylvania Adventure Lab (GC9TV27). It was down SR 121 towards Maytown. We found a place to pull over, got out and ran across the road to check. We thought it would be near the gate, but we had to expand our search zone. We found the stump it was hidden next to. I crawled into the brush and threw Bev the container. She signed our names and we put it back. Yay, it was right!
We ran back across the road, got back into the Escape, opened the app to see where the last one, Travel Bug Rest Area (GC9TVZT) was going to be. It was in the open field area near the on ramp to I-5. We found a place to park and walked the rest of the way to it. It was hidden among some concrete slabs piled up. We made the quick find, and I took a TB to move along on its adventure. We got back in the Escape and made our way back to Tenino.
We got back to Rainier, and I asked Bev if she needed to go to the post office, she said it would be nice to stop by since we were here...it would avoid another trip into Rainier. I took Bev home after a visit to the post office. I loitered around for about an hour while we chatted, and I helped her finish Doug the Pug puzzle. We went outside and ended up talking to Josh and Rhett, who was playing in his toy police car. He was chasing bad guys.
I thanked Bev for a good time and headed home to Lacey. I made sure Charlie went potty, fed the cats and Mom showed up. We got into Doug's car and headed to SeaTac to go pick Doug up. He should have been here last night but was redirected to Connecticut due to bad weather, delays and missed flights. He had to spend the night at JFK so he could get a flight to the west coast the next day.
He decided he wanted to take some time off of work to go on vacation. He had no plan. He stayed a few days in Nashville, Tennessee, lost his phone, wasted four hours of my workday making me help him find it...he left it in an Uber the night before and he barely made it to his next flight to Kansas City, Missouri. There, he visited a gaming friend that used to live in Portland, Oregon who he and his family moved to KC for work. He found out his friend Ross, was there for a week on a work function, so he hung out with him as well. He concluded his trip in a resort down in Miami, Florida. I'm sure he got drunk every night, spent more money that he should have and didn't wear his mask like he was supposed to.
We got to SeaTac and had to sit in the cell phone lot until we heard from him. Once we did, we drove to the JetBlue area to pick him up. We had to wait a very long time for his luggage which didn't end up coming. I dropped Mom off and went back to the cell phone lot because I was being yelled at for sitting in the arrivals area. I didn't think it was going to take that long. After about 20 minutes, we found out his luggage did not get on the plane at JFK, so we got to bring Doug home but not his luggage. Doug was so done with flying, airports and traveling. He was mad that he may have to go back to SeaTac to get his luggage. We got home at a decent time, Mom went home, we started a fire, ate cheese wieners and kettle chips for dinner.
We got cleaned up, I worked on my blog for a little bit, logged caches from earlier that day, watched some TV and went to bed.
That Monday, Doug had to go up to SeaTac to pick up his bag because he was tired of waiting to hear back from them. Once he got there, it took him two hours to get a hold of someone to actually get his bag because he got the runaround. He was not happy.
**Within the next few days Doug managed to bring Covid into the house. I was angry because I DID NOT WANT COVID due to my brother being careless on his vacation. I went to Peru and NYC and did not bring back Covid to my family members or friends, so it is possible to go on vacation and not bring it back. Then a few days later he gave it to Ben, so Ben and Doug had Covid in the house. I microbanned the crap out of the house, they were not allowed to touch anything, they had to wash their hands, wear a mask around the house and stay in their rooms. We tested them often and by some miracle, I did not get Covid. They had it for about two weeks after their last test said they were not positive anymore. Doug got it the worst.**
Next Adventure: CITO in Vancouver, Geocaching and Papa Pete's
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