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= Team Fass- Our Town Geocaching Adventure =



==My adventure started when I took my two children with me to the first spot I was attempting to find a cache. It was in a neighborhood by a school where my daughter attends. We went into the back of a neighborhood where the driving directions had taken us. Using the GPS we went toward the woods in the back of this neighborhood. For my first adventure I was nervous hoping to find the cache. The first thing we saw was a snake in our trail. I was now scared and nervous trying to look at the GPS and our surroundings. We looked for awhile and did not find this cache. The GPS was pointing us toward a very brushy area that I was not going into. So we went home so I could find another spot to go to. I found another spot near where we just were. We headed out again. This time the cache was suppose to be by a subdivision sign in front of a neighborhood. We looked all over and again did not find it. The fact that it was getting dark did not help. I went home again and looked for a third spot that we could look that was not going to be in the woods since now it was dark. I found a spot that had a clue that it was in a parking lot. This was great! I was hoping that I could find it even in the dark. This time I brought my husband too. The GPS did take us into a food store parking lot near our house. We looked all over and when I was going to give up a third time that day, my husband thought of looking under the metal around the light pole. I thought that would not be a place where it would be but there it was! I was so happy to finally find something today after being all over town for the last three hours. The cache was a small pill bottle. Inside was a log and some change. We looked at the log and couldn't believe that it had been there since December of 2010! We signed the log and my girls wanted to put something in so we put in a small rubber ball. Now we were so excited that we wanted to try another one.==

==That Sunday, we went out again with three possible spots. I knew from that previous week that we needed to have a few spots since we did not find the first two. First, we went to a lot were there had once been a house according to the background info that was given. We looked all over the lot by each tree and were loosing hope when we looked by a tree and found it hanging by a string at the bottom of a tree. It was very well hidden behind some weeds. This cache was small and had some bracelets in it with the log. It had been there since earlier this year. We signed the log and put in a small eraser. I was so happy to find the first one we tried to look for that day. This wasn't the end of our adventure. We decided to go to the other spots. One was on the side of a road that had grass and weeds about two feet high. We had no luck. The other was at the end of a road in a commercial area. Again we did not have luck. I was disappointed but still happy that I had found one that day which totaled two found out of six. We really enjoyed geocaching and want to do it again. Now I know that I need to have several spots to go to. I didn't realize that some of the caches are hidden so well that it can be hard to find them even if the difficulty is only a one. I think this would be a great activity to have when I am teaching. I know that kids like it since mine loved it. They think it is a never ending treasure hunt! ==