Charismatic+Camels

__ Ready Set Cache! __  Our adventure began on a warm sunny afternoon in the city of Fayetteville. Our phones had just reached full charge and after a cup of coffee to reenergize us, we were ready to conquer the cache! After pulling up the Geocaching app on our phones, we saw a cache that was not too far away from us. The title of it was “Big Slurpy Love” and it even came with a hint. The hint read, “Something to wash down those hotdogs with”. “Hmmm there is a vending machine near the pool area around the corner,” Mackenzie said, “I bet we can find something there!” With that we were on our way to find our first treasure. However, after poking around for a bit, we realized that the treasure was not there. We decided to reconsider when Mackenzie came up with another idea. “There’s also a gas station right across the street from here! Lets try that!” After walking through a woodsy area, the gas station was finally insight; but there was one problem. The only thing separating us from the gas station, and our first find was a busy two way street. If you have ever visited Fayetteville, NC, then you can agree that Fayetteville’s traffic is not like regular traffic. Fayetteville’s traffic is dangerous, violent, and will eat you alive. However we did not let a little thing like traffic keep us from our goal. When the coast was finally clear, we sprinted across the street and made it safely on the grassy medium. After looking both ways, we sprinted for the gas station when Zanetha’s hat flew off into the middle of the road! “Oh no!” Zanetha shrieked and made the bold decision to run after her hat. She finally reached the baby blue hat when she looked up and saw two cars speeding in her directions. Every thing that every track coach had taught her kicked in at the moment and she raced toward safety! With both of our hearts beating violently inside our their chests, we looked at each other and realized we were in the clear. We were both safe. Our hearts were still beating rapidly as we followed the compass on Zanetha’s phone. The compass led us to some bushes surrounding a large metal pole. Right in front of the pole sat two police cars. The officers were in front of their cars carrying a conversation. The first thing that ran across our minds was “Did they just see us J-walk”? However that quickly turned into “Is this considering loitering and can we get arrested for it”? We took a deep breath and stepped toward the pole as people went in and out of the gas station. We looked around for about five minutes and after receiving strange looks from the police officers, Mackenzie spoke up. “I don’t think it’s here,” she said, sounding disappointed. At that very moment Zanetha spotted a little metal box on the pole. “Found it,” She shouted with glee. We had finally found our first cache. After opening the metal box we found a little plastic bag with a log inside! We added our names to the log, high fived, and went on our way. Our second cache hunt was just as exciting as our first one. After deciding to purse a Cache entitled “Big Pole” we were on our way. We walked for a while until we were in a thirty feet radius of the cache. The huge poles were right near an Applebee’s. We were searching for a small metal container when a car pulled into a parking spot directly facing us. A shorter young man stepped out of the silver Ford Focus and stared for a second. We ignored him and kept searching. After about three minutes the young man finally spoke up. “What did y’all lose,” the guy asked us. “We didn’t lose anything. We’re geocaching,” Mackenzie replied. After explaining what geocaching was the guy spoke again. “Hey I mean as long as you’re looking I can be your exclusive Pokémon”. We assured him that we were not looking for Pokémon. “Let me get your number so you can turn me in for your assignment. I can be your special Pokémon. Do y’all have boyfriends.”? The annoying young man asked us. “Yes,” Zanetha replied, and immediately regretted not inviting him on our geocaching adventure. “It took y’all too long to respond” the young man retorted. “Y’all lying”. After assuring him that we were not lying he asked us our age. “We’re forty-five,” Mackenzie replied with automaticity. “Well I’m down with cougars. I love me so me cougars.” The young man answered back. After catching a glimpse at our uninterested faces he spoke again. “Well, I can tell that I’m bothering you so I’ll leave y’all alone now. Have a good day” He ended the conversation and headed toward the restaurant. As soon as the guy left we burst out laughing. “We have to be sure to include that in the narrative,” Mackenzie said as we continued looking for the cache. Zanetha laughed and agreed. It did not take Mackenzie long to find the cache without the distraction of the young fellow. However, the log inside of the round container was too wet to write on so we could not leave our mark there. After snapping a quick picture of the container, we carefully put the cache back, and walked off into the Fayetteville sunset.