Steeple Chase!

Today's Geocache took us to the Steeple Chase in Percy-Warner Park! It was a bit chilly, but the view was beautiful. We had Dad-Hill along with us, which was a blast.

This cache was cleverly screwed into the bottom of the observation deck like a light bulb. Jessica found it after Mr. Hill and I combed right over it. She's the best at Geocaching. Somehow she always knows right where to go, while I always over think it and think "Why would someone put it there? That doesn't make sense." Sure enough though, there it was.

I've never seen a Steeple Chase before, although obviously there wasn't a race today, but the landscape is beautiful.

On our way to the next cache we spotted some turkeys. It was a good reminder to me to thank their species for all my delicious deli meat sandwiches which has sustained me at school.

Mr. Hill and I spotted this next cache sitting in a tree. We didn't take anything from it, but we did put some information about the Brave Foundation that Mr. Hill works with in Guatemala. They do a lot of work building fire deparments and rescue resources in remote places that have nothing. You can find out more about that here.

Even though the next Cache was not that far away, the roads in this park are like a labrinth and we drove a loooooong way in order to get there. Although we were not "lost" in Jessica's terms, it seemed like no matter how hard we tried to get there, we couldn't seem to get on the right road. It was worth it because we got to see an owl up close!

This is a picture of Mr. Hill and I following our senses (and my iPhone) walking the opposite direction from the cache. As usual, Jessica, who needs no GPS, found this cache. Good job Jess.

This is an example of the random stuff that they have in caches. Mr. Hill was having fun playing with it. We found something called a "Trackable" in this cache. A trackable can be a coin or object with a code on it that you type into the Geocache website. Trackables have destinations on them or goals. The one we found wants to go to Europe, so Jessica is going to take it in the spring!

After a few hours in the hills of Tennessee, we decided to call it quits and go visit with a friend from Church named Mrs. Mosley. She is a sweet lady in her 90s who has known the Hill family for quite a long while.