mousekakat
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Another thing, it's not just the toys with these, but also the plastic "egg" container they come in.
Those containers are definitely small enough for a young kid to get in their mouth and they are so smooth that they would be difficult to get out in case of choking, whole or if broken in half.
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Wow, what a difference!
Budget permitting we've been getting bits and pieces of clothing listed here and yesterday's purchase was a pair of serious socks for each of us.
Ohhhhhh! BLISS! My feet were snugly encased in these things that felt soft and cushy, but at the same time very solid and sturdy, feet didn't get sweaty, no aching... ohhh, why didn't I do this before!
Expensive? Oh heck yeah, roughly 20 bucks a pair, but cheap for Swedish standards.
Got hubby a special shirt made for exercising/hiking/outdoor wear that is synthetic and lycra and especially made to help keep you cool. Got a good idea of just how good it was when we got home and his back was totally dry and the baby who rides in a patapum carrier against his back was still wet on the front of her cotton/poly mix shirt.
Money well spent, will be adding to our "wardrobe" asap! Thanks for the educational thread!
Now... if only I could afford the 200 bucks that hiking boots start at here!
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I just think that kids are more important than cool swag and so many here cache with their kids!
I thought that originally.
Then i found it is mostly old guys by themselves.
Gee, you don't strike me as especially old
Orrrrrr??
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The pieces are tiny. That is what makes them so cool! It is a mini-challenge!
I know!! And you are so right, they are a challenge and they are cool, hehehe.... an irritating one at times when the kidlet is impatient to get their toy and mamma and pappa can't figure out the stupid thing
All playing aside, though, as long as they don't go to families that have kids under 3 or 4 they are fine and absolutely great for older kids (including those kids who's age is in the double digits
)They are dangerous for little ones, though. Hanna doesn't get them anymore until Cait is a bit older. Just not worth it, ya know?
Sorry if I'm raining on anyone's parade here, I don't mean to.
I just think that kids are more important than cool swag and so many here cache with their kids!
Edited to add...
Ya know, I feel like a real fuddy duddy saying that about the kinder eggs. They really are cute and cool and fun and a challenge, I'm just not sure that they are safe swag when there are so many little kids that go hunting caches with their families. I'm not an over-protective mom, I'm the type that believes that a few skinned knees are ok and that if she's sitting happily eating grass or dirt she'll get over it... I just have this strange, weird feeling about the Kinder not being safe...
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*Of course, in todays (US) litigious society, some kid would probably swallow the toy in one and dimwit Mommy would sue everyone on the planet.
I'm in Europe, so those are fairly common here, and honestly, I hate them.
I think they are cool and make cool little gizmos, but dang, the pieces are tiny and sometimes they don't hold together well. I hate when my MIL buys them for my daughter... not so much now for the older girl who's quickly coming up on 8, but because we also have a crawler in the house who puts everything in her mouth.
I do think that kindereggs are dangerous, sorry, but maybe that's just coming from a mamma who has a little one still playing she's a vacuum cleaner.
And before anyone says differently, we DO keep an eye on her and try hard to keep things off the floor, but damned if I know how, the little toot finds it all! She finds beads that my older daughter hasn't seen in a year, lol!
Yes, Kinder are cool, but in the long run, they are a bit on the dangerous side if smaller kids are involved, and the bigger kids can't seem to resist wanting them, putting parents in a sticky spot.
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We have learned various tricks, too. We use a different brand GPSr, so I won't go into the stuff we've learned with that, but one thing we DO do is to use the hints and spoilers.
If it were just hubby and I, we wouldn't, but we also cache with our 7 1/2 year old and 14 month old daughters and we also run the risk of the older one getting bored and burned out, so this really helps.
I open a word document, put in the description, coords, hints and any logs that have relevant information, then a pic of the spoiler, reduced in size so that the pic and the text can be in 2 columns. PM me if you want me to mail you an example!
I do that for each cache that we're hitting for the day, print it and save the text, and when we get home, all the ones we've found are removed from the document and the ones we haven't are kept and saved.
Ok, so no paperless caching here, but this really helps. I also use the paper to write down comments about the cache, what we took and left, etc., so I don't have to rely on my tiny mommy brain to remember it all
Lastly, remember to check the difficulty/terrain ratings and keep them in a range appropriate for your abilities/experience and....
Just enjoy! Even if you don't find it you're out in the wild with your kids, spending quality time together!
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Don't waste energy on being angry... It's rarely worth it!
*hugs*
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If I like the location, and I have a piece of pie with me, I'll gladly put in more time. You think I'm kidding? My favorite way to geocache is to have a picnic near a cache site. If I find it, then great. If not, then I'm still having my picnic.
You're on a roll, mentioned in the OP and quoted
We like to picnic by caches, too... somehow or another food just tastes better after you've done a little hike and search, especially if it's a successful search!
Longest we've looked is about an hour. Shortest is a lot shorter, especially if kidlets are tired and the man eating skeeters are hungry!
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LOL! Ok, goldpot, I'll add that to the list! Is it relatively easy to find with an entire family in tow?
Thanks, DG/GD.... I know that you frequent some of the caches that are WC friendly, so I value your input for us going to ones that are easily accessable for the kidlets!
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LOL!
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Hello!
We're going on a quick trip to London the second week of August for a whirlwind 2.5 day stay.
We're going to be staying in Bayswater, which means absolutely nothing to me
.Unfortunately, we're going to not only have the kidlets with us, but also MIL, FIL, BIL and his live-in and their infant daughter.
What I'd like to know is the location of some VERY simple, easy to find caches that we might be able to hit while out with the family and in the general area of where we're staying, that way we might be able to sneak out a little while without them and grab a few!
Thanks in advance,
Naomi, Micke, Hanna and Caitlyn
PS... any other suggestions of really, really seeworthy things to do, let us know!!
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Welcome!
We haven't been here that long, either, but the forum is warm and welcome, the information good, and the humor warped!
And yes, Geocaching is addicting!
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How do you keep your wood beautiful then??
Oh man, I am so not touching that one
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I've got a sense of humor, but if PURPOSELY you cost me a few gallons of liquid gold to go after a TB that isn't there, I see no humor at all!
OOOH! I am SO with you, Roddy! Especially here where gas recently topped out at 6.86$ a gallon!
Went about 100 miles roundtrip today to get a FTF and it cost us almost 20 bucks in gas! Ridiculous!
BUT... we got the FTF, hehehe! Hey, a caching family has to have priorities, right!
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Wooo! I was listed
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Material possessions arent worth anything compared to people.
YOU are a good person! Bless!
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That is a really lovely coin and a great message! WTG!
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Would you have taken it home with you, blech!
It stank to high heavens, there was NO way I was putting that in my car, don't you watch CSI, Knight, lol
? That stink doesn't come out of stuff!We reburied it with stones and left a note on the cache log that it was there. Hopefully the owner of the cache will note it in the cache description.
Ni'night, ATM775, get some rest!
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You gotta love a man who will toss his cookies over a dead animal for you.
Is kind of romantic, huh!
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It as an animal, small dog or cat.
Advanced putrification, Mr tossed his cookies after checking it.
Just couldn't leave it with a clear conscience without checking it to be sure. Mr was majorly stressing that we might have to call the police to come, talk about relief to find those animal teeth and nothing human!
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I used the Browse Map feature and then hit Find and chose Latitude Longitude and entered the coordinates. It added a blue mark to the map, and then I drove around until I got near it ...
This is what we do with out Tom Tom ONE and it works pretty well that way!
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We have decent experiences with our TomTom ONE unit... It takes a little finagling to figure out, but once we did, it gets us where we're going, on foot or in the car.
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Small enough to not be a GROWN-UP...but.....I'd have the LEO check it out.
Yeah, mother-in-law mentioned the baby/child thing, too...
Gonna give the non-emergency cop shop number a call tomorrow and put it in their hands!
I did drop the cache owner a message and noted it in the log, too!
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I love this...
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I feel kind of silly saying this, but it's been on my mind a couple of days now.
Yes, we're relatively new to geocaching, but we've become totally hooked and have been going out almost every day looking for the elusive cache.
We've started getting exercise regularly caching, including discovering muscles we'd forgotten we had and getting up stiff after sitting down after getting home caching
. I've learned that in spite of my s***e balance that I can climb up and down rocks, Hanna has learned the same, and that we can walk longer distances without dying, and that breathing heavy, skeeters fromthe underworld, aching backs, hearts feeling like they are going to jump out of our chests... none of that matters when you're at the top of a mountain somewhere, looking at a view that goes on for miles, watching the sunset, and seeing the smiles on everyone's face as we sit around a silly little plastic box, looking at goodies in it and reading the thoughts of people who had been there before us. That one, simple little goal, and reaching it, means so much and cancels out all the inconveniences and aches that you get when you're looking for it, and the pleasure you receive at finding it keeps you feeling happy all the way back to your car.
Our family used to consider it family time if hubby was on his puter gaming, I was on my laptop surfing, the baby was on the floor playing happily and the kidlet was playing with her sister or doing her own thing in the room with us.
Now we go out, we walk, we talk, we take the dog, we take long car rides to beautiful places, we laugh, we look and we learn a lot about our area and the history and beauty it holds.
I won't go so far as to say our family was in any kind of serious trouble, but we needed some definite improvement and I think that geocaching has given us that. We're all a lot happier and a lot closer now and we are doing things together more than we have in years.
And it feels really, really good!
Thanks geocaching.com for bring us together and thanks to the forum and the people here for sharing their experience, opinions, laughter and a few other strange things that we won't go into any further, hehehe...
Anyway, I just wanted to get that off of my chest and really say thank you to everyone involved...
Now... it's 5:15 p.m. here and time to get off my butt and get dressed and go look for find number 21 and see the sun setting from the top of the next mountain with my family....
Peace all!