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Squad’s Geoventure! According to Oxford Dictionaries, geocaching is “the recreational activity of hunting for and finding a hidden object by means of GPS coordinates posted on a website.” So basically, this is the story of Sarah Davis, Michaela Godwin, Amber Chauncey, and Elizabeth Street (a.k.a. SQUAD) running around Buies Creek and Lillington looking for hidden objects. Our entire grade in Dr. Roukema’s class depended on this adventure and we were about to crush it!

“Screeeeeech!” The silver cobalt came to a halt as the Geocache App alerted us that we were close! We pulled over in the grass, turned our hazard lights on and jumped out! We had to find six geocaches and this was our starting point. We marched across the sidewalk and walked right up to the camel. He was staring at us, laughing as we search him up and down for the geocache. After looking all over him, we decided it just wasn’t there. We decided to check the benches. One by one, Amber, Michaela, Sarah and Elizabeth searched the benches. We only had two left, Michaela got down on her knees, felt under the last bench and there it was the tiny magnetic geocache! We let out a yell and quickly snapped a selfie! Then quick as a herd of turtles, we were off to the next stop, Saylor Park.

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“What is Saylor Park?” we all said in unison as our geocaching app told us where to go. Amber had been at Campbell for three years and she had the answer, “it’s over by Moes,” she said. So, we headed that way, phones in hand. We had seen previous pictures of the geocache and it was on a power-line-box-thing- so that’s where we started. We looked on every box in the area, then we started lifting them and looking in them! As we ran around frantically we just couldn’t find the geocache. It was very upsetting after looking for thirty minutes but, we knew with all the construction going on in that area that the cache must’ve been moved or destroyed. We decided to hold off on finding another geocache, we couldn’t be late for Roukema’s class.

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A few days later we met up again, this time furthering our adventure to the great city of Lillington. We headed towards Fuquay with hopes of finding a geocache at the big cross. We had high hopes and just knew with the Lord on our side we could find that geocache. We searched in mulch, we searched under trinkets, we searched under benches, and we searched on poles. That geocache was nowhere to be found. After looking for 25 minutes we decided to snap some selfies and head on our way. We were in high hopes to find a geocache at the next stop.

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“VROOOOOOM!” Elizabeth took off like she was Dale Earnhardt down NC 210. She was driving so past she drove right past Loop Road. Loop Road. We’ve had nightmares about that name ever since we missed that turn. Elizabeth jerked to the side of the road and pulled out right in front of a car. We thought we were going to die. However, we didn’t and we continued our geoventure down Loop Road. Michaela and Sarah got out of the Hyundai and started walking through the woods. However, this too seemed to be a dead end. They searched for fifteen minutes and didn’t find anything they looked at 27 tree branches, through pine straws and five ant bites late decided to call it quits. So, for the third time in a row, we found nothing. We just knew we would be able to find the geocache at town hall, so we headed that way.

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We came to a screeching halt in front of the bank. We stomped our way to the town hall clock. We debated for a few minutes if it was okay to jump in the mulch-but Elizabeth took the plunge and climbed in. Sarah and Amber weren’t far behind her. There was red mulch flying everywhere! “Ahhhhhhhh!” Sarah screeched as she found the hidden geocache! It was a tiny, bottle with a small piece of paper, which we signed, “squad.” We had finally caught another geocache. We were on top of the world, even though we only caught two of the five geocaches we searched for.

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The sun started to set, so we made our way back to campus for science class. It had been a fairly successful trip and we were excited to have that portion of the project completed. We split up the rest of the assignments and got to work. Although we only found two geocaches, it’s the effort that matters. This geoventure is surely one we will not forget.

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