Back to Where It All Started

It was going to be an awesome week of sunshine so we had planned to do something local because we both worked. After the hotel I drove out to Lacey and waited for him at Meconi's Italian Subs.

http://www.meconissubs.com/

I changed my pants into shorts in the front seat of my car.  He was getting close so I just chilled inside the car until he drove up.  We decided to eat first and then play disc golf at Woodland Creek Community Park, the vary same date we had almost six months ago.  This is where I first met him.

We got our subs  to go and decided to leave one of the vehicles there.  We first attempted my car but it wouldn't start.  Hmmm...I guess we will take Ben's Explorer.  We got to the park and found a nearby picnic table and ate our food.  We talked about various topics but mostly about his dad, who was very ill.  We needed to schedule a time to go see his parents soon.

After food, we grabbed our discs and hit the 9-hole course on the other side of the creek along the old railroad bed.  There were actually quite a few people disc golfing today.

I had an awesome run on hole 4.  I got it in two tries and I think it was a par three.

We even had a lengthy conversation with some guy around hole 6.  When we got to hole 7 we looked for the cache that was suppose to be there.  With some aid, we managed to find it.

We finished hole 8 and 9.

We went back to Ben's Explorer and he drove me back to my car and it started!  Yay!  We went back to my house to hang out until it was time for him to drive back to the station for his shift the next day.

Here's to many more times spent together!

Next Adventure:  Spanaway Lake CITO

Asphalt Adventures, CWT and a Bike Ride

After work I thought it would be fun to take the bikes out on the trail...for me to do maintenance and for Ben to find the caches.  We left off at AA#8 back in December so we parked at the trail head on Military Road and went from there.

I had Ben navigate and I helped him when the caches weren't suppose to be where other cachers put them.  It's amazing how far a cache you placed back in 2011 can move.  I even had him find the two others amongst mine.  Well Insulated for the BobBevLacie Clan (GC4A8XR) and Slanted Rock (GC1D66N).

Luckily a lot of my caches really weren't in that bad of shape.  I had to fix a couple of baggies and one smashed container.  I saw some really interesting containers people had left the past three years because they either could not find them or the containers were in bad shape.

We rode our bikes all the way to AA#15 and decided to call it good for the day.  It was almost dinner time and we were hungry.  The last cache was replaced with a coin purse by some cacher a while ago.  I put a new plastic container and a logbook out for the next people who want to enjoy the trail and cache.

Next Adventure:  Back To Where It All Started

Six Months

Today we celebrated our six months together.

Ben had his Kelly day which is paid time off and I also had the day off from the hotel.  We decided to spend the day together.  It wasn't really planned but we went with the flow.  We made our way towards Spanaway and stopped at the main park to grab some caches.  We tried looking for Muzzle Loader Medium Range (GC50PXZ) and spend more than a half hour looking for it.  We ended up saving it for another time.

We walked across the road to the Sprinker area to Bresemann Forest and the climbing crag rock.  We climbed up to the top and came back down and talked to a guy and his kid for a little bit, mostly about climbing.

We wandered around in the forest looking for Oliver's Hideaway (GCG5XF).  That bugger was hard to find when your GPS is bouncing all over the place.  Ben found it with his phone.  I was impressed.  My GPS never went below 30 feet and kept me walking in circles.

We followed the path to A Walk in the Park (GC2JVP9) and had a hard time with that one too.  The hint helped kinda.  I started looking through everything that resembled the hint.  After about fifteen minutes I found it behind one of the cut logs.

We walked back to the park and got back to Ben's Explorer.  We had time to grab one more, Play Ball (GC2PM47), which I tried looking for a while back but had no luck.  Ben found it right away and I was like, I should have found it last time then.  By now some of the paint had flaked off and you could see the yellow container through the gray paint.

It was dinner time and I thought it would be fun to go to Engine House No. 9.  The sandwiches there are delicious, they brew their own beer, they have trivia and shuffleboard.  We didn't play shuffleboard this time.  We enjoyed each others company but sadly we had to come back to my house and hang out for a bit.  He went back to the fire station and I worked at the dentist office the next day.

Here's to many more months with Ben!

Next Adventure:  Asphalt Adventures, CWT and a Bike Ride