Team LegoMINI

Definitely a battery drainer, but the app works great most of the time. I'll probably invest in a better handlheld GPS for navigation purposes at some point, but finding caches to look for and logging them is still awesome with the iPhone so far.

From the light side: After our very first cache find (which was just last week), we all piled back into the car on our way to a nearby park that had several caches. The kids were in the backseat talking, and my son (6) asked my daughter (2) what she hoped to find inside the next cache. Being a baby/toddler, she immediately answered "Gugga!", her word for pacifier. We all laughed. Sure enough, we found a pacifier not inside but near the next cache (we didn't pick it up because it was old and dirty, but it was still amusing to find it). And a couple days later, we actually found what appeared to be a brand new pacifier inside a cache at another park. I'm wondering if this is going to be a trend with us...

Being a new cacher, I can think of another reason one might want to do something like this. We have decided, at the moment, to have just one geocaching account with the premium membership. Once our kids are of an appropriate age, we will let them decide if they want to have their own accounts for use on into adulthood, but for now we thought it would be easier to log things just once. However, I travel quite a bit in my work and there are certainly going to be times when I will visit caches that the rest of the family won't have a chance to see. We are considering purchasing four travel bugs or geocoins as personal items that we would each have visit a cache that we actually see. That way, each of us can kind of see which caches our personal bugs have visited separate and apart from what we log with our family account. Also, the kids will be able to go back and log their personal visits to their personal accounts (or revisit them) if they ever decide to have them using the TBs as a reference.

January 25, 2011

On only our second day out, we had what turned out to be a "lighter" moment, though my son would probably classify it as dark. He and his mom had just found a cache and were in the process of signing the log when he screamed out in pain and started dancing around stomping his feet. Little did they know, they had decided to stand right in the middle of a fire ant hill and the ants did not appreciate the invasion. Fortunately, he only got a couple of bites, but hopefully it will be a lesson learned to watch your surroundings at all times -- even after you find the cache!! BTW, we are huge Star Wars fans as well as LEGO and MINI fans, so we love this giveaway!