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The Blondies Go Geocaching //A Scavenger Hunt Adventure with Paige Goldbach and Elizabeth Lippincott //

It was an ordinary Wednesday in Buies Creek, North Carolina. Elizabeth had been stressed from copious amounts of lesson plans and assignments due, and Paige was at Starbucks as per usual. In an effort to de-stress Elizabeth and Paige, the Blondies, decided to tackle an assignment together. Our story begins outside of Brit Hall on the main campus of Campbell University. Elizabeth pulls up to the curb and Paige hops in sipping her iced caramel macchiato. The Blondies exchange pleasantries and their adventure begins.

The girls gossip through the backroads of Harnett County on their way to downtown Angier. After fifteen minutes or so of driving through the sunshine streets and contemplating life without One Direction, they arrive at the Food Lion in Angier. Eager, the Blondies jump out of the car and open their geocaching apps.

“It looks like we’re pretty close, like 300 yards,” Elizabeth calls out.

Paige agrees, “I think it’s behind the building.”

The girls search behind the store, unsure of what they are looking for. Suddenly, the geocaching app begins flashing. The screen reads, “You’re Arriving at your Destination.”

“It must be in one of these bushes,” says Elizabeth.

Paige and Elizabeth look around and under every bush. Of course they find the cache in the last bush.

“Turn on the camera,” instructs Elizabeth.

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After the fire ant fiasco, Paige finds two beads in her purse to leave in the cache.



The two decide to head to the next closest cache located at Sunni Sky’s. The girls follow the GPS around the parking lot, unable to find the cache. The girls were beginning to lose faith when their classmate, Kelly walks out of the store with a waffle cone covered in sprinkles dripping down her hands in the warm autumn sun. She reassures the Blondies that they are close and not to give up. After a few minutes of searching high and low near the sign, Paige makes the discovery.

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After signing the log, the girls head back into Angier without any delicious ice cream because they had a blonde moment and forgot to bring cash. The final was near. Elizabeth followed her GPS to a side street in downtown. With muggles abound, the Blondies quickly jump out of the car to finish their hunt. The cache was an easy find, located in an electrical panel. media type="youtube" key="LR2dDOCLlGE" width="560" height="315"

After the final log, the girls head back to campus, ready to learn. The girls talk about their experience as Ed Sheeran plays in the background.

“That was fun,” exclaims Paige.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;">“I would do it again,” Elizabeth nods as she drives off into the sunset.

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