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The Ropes

When our teacher introduced to us, Geocaching, our mind began to wander. What in the world is Geocaching? Does it involve cash? Once we researched everything, it turned out to be something full of voyage and excitement. Our quest started right after education classes on Tuesday where we hopped into the jeep, strapped up, and sailed the open roads. This cloudy, damp, and cold day would not stop us on our hunt for caches. Once the coordinates were in place, we being two adventurous comrades drove to McDonalds in Lillington. We got out of the car in the parking lot because we suspected for the geocache, "AARRGH" you looking?” to be nearby. The person that hid the geocache listed two key clues that helped us out: it is between two parking lots, and there are a bunch of rocks. There was no doubt that it could not be anywhere but in between McDonalds and KFC. People were probably wondering what we were doing because we were walking around holding the GPS in the air.

All of the clues started to add up; there was an area of rocks between the two parking lots of Subway and Bojangles. The journey into this hole was icky and dangerous. We almost slipped a few times and twisted our ankle. After over five minutes of searching, the geocache was finally found under huge white rocks. At last, our first mission was complete! The container was wet, muddy, and even looked old. Inside the container, there were two cards that looked similar to Yugioh Cards, fishing bait, a rusted dog tag, a Support Our Troops badge, and a toy skull. That was a unique combination of items to put in there. We each signed our names and hid the geocache back under some rocks.





Excitement surrounded us so much after finding the hidden treasure that we leaped in the car, eager to find more. The next geocache that we decided to go hunt for, “Day at the Park” was one located in Coats Park. 

 We chose this one because it sounded interesting. When we arrived to the park, we automatically went to the nature trail. The clue given for this geocache was that it was located right to side of the trail. This treasure was a lot more challenging, and it took us a long time to find it. In the midst of looking for the geocache, our GPS shut off because the batteries were low. Trouble had reached us and there was a slight panic. However, thanks to 21st century technology, our iPhone came into good use. Just when we were about to go another route, we found the container hidden under leaves and a stick. Our second geocache was found. A SpongeBob Squarepants toy, an eraser, and a toy bracelet were the items in this container. It looked like this was hidden by a little child. We thought that child may be excited to see another signature because there were only two more signatures before ours. 



The Rope’s hunt had sadly come to an end. We had a blast! This was a great experience to enjoy the outdoors and nature. We will definitely do Geocaching again and integrate it into the classroom.