It's been so hot here in Florida lately, I haven't wanted to do anything outdoors including geocaching! I was surfing around geocaching.com this morning and found a nice little pocket of caches just north of the toll bridge south of Milton. I figured if we geocached early enough, we could beat the heat. So, I got everybody up and going, even woke up the wife early on her day to sleep in... just so we could go geocaching. I had nine picked out, thinking we'd only hit 3 or 4 before it got too hot on us. We got going and started with one cache named "$150.00." Sometime part of the fun of geocaching is finding out why a geocache is named what it is. Check it out! It was right behind the sign...look closely!<<<-------------
Up the toll bridge and walked through a nature trail. Which started out nice and open and then got thicker and thicker like a jungle. That's no good for the wife who hates all the bugs in the summertime. I have to agree to a degree... I hate the bugs buzzing around my ears, but love the outdoors! I credit my Dad for that. I enjoy being outdoors more the older I get! Can you see us? 
Usually, we pass on looking for micros because there is no treasure inside, just a log to sign. Trale likes treasure, but this time we found them and Trale enjoyed it too! We took a break at McDonalds along the way and as kids do... they have accidents. Mason had a pretty big one. He was standing on the chair (like daddy told him not to) and as he took a step to turn around, he fell... hard! He landed against the wall, but on the way down his face and nose slammed, just right, on the molding (a sharp piece of wood.) I thought he broke his nose the way it bled and the way he screamed. He turned out to be ok, but it was pretty tramatic for Mason and daddy too! 
Not the last injury of they day though. We stopped by one cache just outside a bowling alley, Trale reached to pull out the cache and pulled out some big ants with it! He got a few bites on him. I had some good stuff in my geo-bag to ease the sting. We'll we got to the part of the day when it was getting pretty darn hot, but not before we logged all nine geocaches... a family record number of finds for one day! We had a ton of fun, the kids were great, and the injuries were at a minimum! Can't beat that! Cache On!
Usually, we pass on looking for micros because there is no treasure inside, just a log to sign. Trale likes treasure, but this time we found them and Trale enjoyed it too! We took a break at McDonalds along the way and as kids do... they have accidents. Mason had a pretty big one. He was standing on the chair (like daddy told him not to) and as he took a step to turn around, he fell... hard! He landed against the wall, but on the way down his face and nose slammed, just right, on the molding (a sharp piece of wood.) I thought he broke his nose the way it bled and the way he screamed. He turned out to be ok, but it was pretty tramatic for Mason and daddy too! 
Not the last injury of they day though. We stopped by one cache just outside a bowling alley, Trale reached to pull out the cache and pulled out some big ants with it! He got a few bites on him. I had some good stuff in my geo-bag to ease the sting. We'll we got to the part of the day when it was getting pretty darn hot, but not before we logged all nine geocaches... a family record number of finds for one day! We had a ton of fun, the kids were great, and the injuries were at a minimum! Can't beat that! Cache On!
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