Papaspals

In simple language, I am very new to all of this - Is the unit we bought and the update cord I received yesterday any good? Or have we thrown away our money? What are our options ( we gotone from Target at Christmas and another one from Amazon for a gift. I see where some of you are offering suggestions but the information is Greek to me, we are as green as you can get to this activity. Help,what a way to start LOL. It looks like a wonderful family activity to get our grand kids into, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

My husband (Papa) read about this some place or another and it got his intrest and he thought the devise would be a neat to get as a group gifts for his sisters children and another for our grand kids for when we get together for our summer visits. Right about the same time I was asking my grand-daughter, who is new to brownies, what she wanted for Christmas and out of the blue she came up with she wanted a girl scout GPS. I had never heard of such a thing. I was telling him about her request and he laughed and showed me what he had been looking at. Needless to say that was two of the gifts we purchased and gave out this year. Today My grand=daughter and a friend of hers did out first cache. It was a nice simple one and the girls get very excited ( all 4 of us ). We were not so lucky on our other attempts but look forward to trying again. We have the Geomate.jr and when we left the house were so green we even had to figure out how to turn it on. I foresee a lot of fun "adventures" next attempt will be the boys and a cemetery near by........ signed -papaspals best girl 'Nana'