So, I guess this is the right place to post this? I'm not sure..
See, I'm kinda new around here. My wife and I are kinda new to Geocacheing, actually.
I guess I first found out about it through other websites and being curious about the catchy 4-colour logo, only to find out all about it with Groundspeak and such. It looked very interesting, so I told my wife about it and suggested that we get involved with it because it looked to be a great activity to get us outside with the dog and have a good time.
I ended up buying a Magellon Triton 400 from the local Canadian Tire - on sale, fifty bucks off - probably back in April, maybe May.
Longer story short, my first real excursion with it (after loading it up with geocaches that were close to my work, close to home, close to my dad's place, etc) was into Arrowhead park near Hunstville, Ontario. We didn't find the traditional cache (all of my friends wanted to see some pirate treasure or something) but we did spot a great lookout and took a few photos.
Still, we wanted to find a traditional cache.
Fast forward to today, July 1st - Canada Day. We Canadians get today off of work, so my wife and I decided to go out and try to find a cache. I work near Thornhill, Ontario and we set off to look out for a few caches up there. The first, we couldn't find. The second, we couldn't find.
The third?
The third we found. It was our first Geocache find ever! How exciting! ... But what's this? What's this inside?!?
A coin!
..but not just any coin! A summer meltdown 2008 coin!
What the heck is all of THAT about!
Next thing I know, I'm here.. posting my first post? Maybe? I've just learned about this coin.. My wife and I are so proud to have it, we want to put it in our front lobby display cabinet, with the caption --
"First geocache find ever! Canada Day, 2008!"
What a great thing here.. I'm enough to admit that we did not expect this kind of find at all, but what a rare find indeed and we feel so lucky to have found it - and makes for a most memorable 'first cache' find ever!
..and this is coin 10, and I notice that MrJiffy lives near Thornhill -- perhaps he placed it himself?
