First, just a few pictures of the neighbour kids all in our back yard, jumping on the trampoline. Fun. Love it that there are all these kids!
A week ago (and two days) was the town's annual "Pick up and walk" event. Churches recruit volunteers and put teams together to clean up the town - all the public areas. We did it last year and it was freezing!!! - but fun. This year was significantly better as it was pretty much a perfect day for it. We did it with one other family from our life group at church - everyone else was gone or busy. We did the south side of town, right by the dump road. Considering we were right by the dump road, we didn't get a whole lot of interesting items!
Shortly into our morning Eric exclaimed "I have to pee":
About half an hour later, he "had two pee":
Lucy also found a "4", but there wasn't anything very clever that we came up with that.
Eric cleverly thought of using some old ski poles as pick-up sticks. They worked quite fabulously. After we were done the highway area, we moved on to the A.D. Penner park.
After about two and a half to three hours of cleaning up, everyone headed back to the hockey rink (where we all started from) for a hot dog feast. It really is quite an enjoyable time and it is pretty amazing how much better the town looks when we are all done. It's a good thing.
The next day, Sunday, we did a little geocaching in the area. We did five different ones. And even the tough one we did quite quickly. Spoiler alert: if you plan to do some geocaching in the Steinbach area, you may not want to see these pictures. We don't want to spoil your fun!
The first two were by this cool little creek area just outside of town.... right beside a car dealership. But it feels like you are pretty far away while you are in the middle of it - pretty cool area.
Mia found that one pretty quickly.
The next one was further down just off of a path. It took us a minute or two but Eric found the next one. It took about a minute or two to open it as well....here's a little tip: lefty-loosy, righty-tighty...don't try to pull the lid off.
We forgot all about bringing along some little treasures to exchange in the caches but Lucy, not surprisingly, had a few little items in her pocket. She left a shell and took a quarter.
On to cache number three. It was in a different area and also just took a minute or so to find, once we were in the right area. Cade found that one.
It was pretty breezy that day and Lucy, the sweatshirtless girl, was freezing. Dad the hero finally sacrificed his sweatshirt for her.
Cache number four was found before I even crossed the little creek on the lovely somewhat stable 2x4 laid across it.
And on to cache five. This one had a high level of difficulty but had a hint: 24. Right away Cade had the right idea of adding up the numbers together that he saw on some electric/hydro/what-have-you box. Surprisingly he mis-calculated. I recalculated and discovered that it did, indeed, add up to 24. So then we figured we were at the right place. We looked around for a few seconds and that was all the time it took for Mia to find the cache.
It was just a tiny folded up paper in a little zip-lock bag behind the magnetized numbers. Pretty clever! And our family was pretty clever too - it took mere minutes for us to work together and find the difficult cache.
On the way home I challenged Cade to come up with a clever cache. He said that he wanted to hide one so I thought we should do something cool instead of just a regular one. I suggested that we have two different coordinates - one to locate a ball or spear or something and one to locate a target. They you had to hit the target with the ball or spear to release the cache.... or it could even release the new coordinates to where the cache is! It probably won't ever happen, but it'd be cool if it did!
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