A BIG THANK YOU to CENT5 and all that were searching this morning. It was great to put names and faces together. Now, I'm sure you are all waiting to hear the story.....so here goes:
O-dark-thirty, Mr.& Mrs. TIAG! pull up to the meeting coordinates. Heeding the warning that the park hours were dawn to dusk, not wanting to chance the $95.00 fine, we sat in the car talking. As the clock ticks and dawn approaches, we wonder why no one has shown up. Are we in the right location we ask ourselves? A quick call to Pepper to verify that we had not overlooked something in the cache page. She assures us we're in the right location.
7:15am still no one else has shown...still waiting on the roadside for fear of the nice policeman that overlooks the park. Wait....company....one bright light, two bright lights, three bright lights. Such pretty colors, what shiny badges they have. The local officers make sure were not suspicious characters (even though one of us was wearing a black stocking cap) and give us the green light to enter the park. It's officially past dawn, legal park hours, verified by the authorities.
Still no one in sight, Mr. TIAG! takes a walk through the park. He returns to the meeting coordinates where OBE has joined us. Mr. TIAG! annouces that he found the final! Mrs. thought he was kidding. He disclosed no details of the hide. C5, TM, OBE & Companion, RJ(spelling?), and TIAG! stand and talk for a bit. CENT5 fills us in that the meeting time was SUNRISE. Doh! We had missed something.
Before C5 gives out the first WP, we tell of Mr.'s find. It is determined that only Mrs. TIAG! will hunt since Mr. did not disclose the final location.
The race begins! Everyone scatters to the first WP. Mr. TIAG! stays behind to chat with C5. Mr. describes what he found for the final, CENT5 indicates that wasn't his final. "Go hunt!" said C5. It was announce that Mr. would be joining the hunt. Mr. TIAG! indeed did find a cache, FTF in fact, but not the Ping-Pong Cache.
We'll skip the actual hunt as to not spoil for future hunters. All we can say if that it was well thought out, creative, ingenious and hunted with a great group of cachers. RB joined us at the final.
Mr. TIAG! came up will the final goods when it was all said and done along with the FTF on a cache that appears to not be posted or approved yet. What are the odds of that?
We thoroughly enjoyed the search and hunt. Congrats to OBE on his 900th find! We are truly thankful for this experience and of course the generous FTF gift. Our intent is to use the vouchers to visit Pepper.
We did lot's of CITO at the park. I hope future cachers will continue to do the same. There's plenty more that can be cleaned up in this tiny neighborhood park. Pepper was correct, there was indeed dancing in the woods! Thank you all for a memorable hunt!
Happy Holidays To All. Thank you for the generous gift! TIAG!
