Cougars Coming Out of the WAZZU (GC20G34)

I saw this cache on the geocaching website and knew I just had to find it.  What can I say I will always bleed crimson and gray, GO COUGS!!!

Ethan didn't want to go so Oliver and I set out the day after Christmas.  It was a good opportunity for me to test my new Garmin etrex Venture HC GPSr Christmas present.  I have my iPhone for paperless caching so I just wanted a small handheld for those times when you really don't want to be carrying a iPhone.

Oliver and I quickly found this cache and Oliver loved all the WSU stickers inside.  We took a cool WSU poster and left a WSU keychain.

--Tom

School Power (GC16JX0)

I took today off work to spend some time with my boys.  Ethan had a Christmas party at preschool and wanted me to go. I was pretty prove of him, all the kids were running around like typical 4 year olds but whenever the teacher asked them to do something Ethan was always the first one to listen and do it.

So after the party and lunch I took the boys out to find a geocache.  We found the cache container with little trouble.  The neighbor was checking her mail and gave us a funny look while we were walking in the woods nearby.

However, something weird happened with my iPhone when I tried to restart it the phone just froze so I had to restore it so I lost the pictures of the boys out geocaching.  I think the only thing I lost was the pictures hopefully everything else is still there.

--Tom

YA WANT 23 FRYS WITH THAT? (GC202A1)

The boys wanted to go Geocaching tonight but it was starting to dark and just too darn cold to go hunting for a cache in the woods.

Since my wife was working late I figured I would that the boy out for dinner. Then I remember their was a drive up geocache at the Bonney Lake Sonic. Sounds great to me we get to find a geocaching and have dinner without leaving the car.

Ethan wanted to hold the cache container while I took the picture. Oliver said he was a hungry, hungry hippo and tried to put the whole corn dog in his mouth at once.

--Tom

The Cedar Grove (GC10T1Q)

This cache is right across the street from the other cache we found today. Since the first one was small and didn't have any toys for the boys to trade we had to find another one with some swag.

This one wasn't too bad it was just a little hard because the iPhone GPS isn't the best under a lot of tree cover. Plus the leaves a pretty much done falling so there is a good extra couple of inches of leaves covering the cache.

We found it, the boys got some new toys so everyone is happy.

--Tom

Have you read your Bible lately? (GC14H0Q)

The boys and I went out for a little geocaching trip to the neighborhood park. I am not really sure why we haven't found this one before it's only a mile from our house. Either way we did it today. It was freezing cold so I had the boys wear their winter coats.

This cache was a mystery cache that had to do with deciphering bible passages for those of you who know me you know I don't even own a bible little lone am I able to quote from it. But Google is my friend and I figured I could guess my way through the clues. Luckily, the cache owners had just changed this cache to only have one passages to decipher instead of the 3 or 4 that it use to be.

I was able to figure out the passage was JOHN 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." But that didn't help my any. I was suppose to take the verse, derive a, b, c, d, & e and plug into the following coordinates: N 47 11.ab(c+6) W 122 10.0(d+7)(e-2) whatever that means. Based off where I was and the hint about walking on water I guessed the geocaching was under a nearby walking bridge.

Thank God for lucky guesses or we might still be out there figuring out how to decipher the clues.

Anyway it was a good hide and a nice little bridge. Ethan was a pouting because Oliver got to hold the cache container for the picture, Kids :-)

--Tom