Auntie+Char+and+Mini+Me+goes+Geocaching

In my first story I ended say that I would hopefully be able to take my four-year old nephews geocaching. Well, that didn't work this weekend because they had birthday party's to go too. But, I did get to take my niece. So here is the story of Auntie Char and her eight-year old Mini Me going geocaching...

The next Sunday after eating lunch, I decided that I would take Anna Kate geocaching. She is in third grade this year and will soon be learning about location in Social Studies, so I figured I would get a head start and teach her a little bit about it. Since I already knew where the geocache was at Howell Woods and I didn't want us to get lost trekking through the woods, I decided to take her to Howell Woods. Much like last week, we arrived at Howell Woods and got the GPS ready to go.

Apparently, Anna Kate is much smarted than me when it comes to following directions from a GPS because she led up right to where we were suppose to go. Once we were in the correct area all we had to do was look for the actual cache. I gave Anna Kate the clue that was given on the website which was, "A bucket inside a box".



We then started looking for possible "boxes" that the bucket could be in. And once again my super-duper smart niece found it! She actually probably found it a lot quicker than I did.

After retrieving the cache we went to the table so she could look through and see everything that was inside. While she was taking the things out she called most of it junk, but I was one proud auntie that she had found her first geocache!

After Anna Kate looked through the bucket we put everything back inside and put it back in the hiding place so someone else could find it. And then I was able to show her the birds of prey!



On the way home, Anna Kate wanted to know when we could go back so I believe she had a good time. I am hoping that I can find other caches around our house and then I can take Anna Kate and the boys geocaching!

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