Raccoons!

After church, sunday afternoon naps, and a bit of chatting, there was hardly any sunlight left for geocaching! Did that stop us? No sir. We went out around Brentwood like it was nobody's business. In fact, our first cache was in a nearby business park call Seven Springs. We felt like hoodlums trudging around Brentwood (where the Hills live).

As USUAL, just a minute before this picture was taken, I had been in that same part of the bush looking for the cache. But when Jess looks there, sure enough, there it is! She is the queen of geocaching.

Some of the Caches are really small, like this one. Some of them are in larger boxes. You can see it in there tied to the tree.

That is what a typical log looks like.

The next cache was hidden in a traffic circle. We would stand around trying to act inconspicuous, then when the traffic was clear, we would start rummaging through bushes and around walls and things. I stuck my hand underneath a storm drain (its not disgusting as it sounds), and there it was! It was too dark to take any pictures, but we still took one of us holding the cache. As we learned, when you take a picture of the same two people in the dark, the picture looks exactly the same no matter what the background.

You can sort of see me in the middle of this picture sneaking the cache back into the storm drain without anyone seeing. Even though we're not doing anything bad, it feels like we're doing something bad, which is nice.

And of course, what better way to end a day of day of fun with a bit of ice cream?