Through the thick of it

Today we had a sleepy day. I think all this bustling around Nashville has started to wear on us a little bit, so we spent most of the day relaxing at home with Dad-Hill. But, what is a day of vacationing without Geocaching? And thus... we went.

Thankfully in Nashville there really is no shortage of Geocaches, so we didn't have to go far out of our way to go find a few. As you can see in the picture below, you could spend a good long while finding Geocaches in this area. Each one of those little squares represents a Geocache.

Today's adventure was very cold. Unfortunately I left all my warm clothes in Maryland, so my fingers were not nimble enough to handle my GPS (aka my iPhone, which on a side note has had more use as a GPS than a phone this past week.) So Jessica, my trusty sidekick and Geocache queen, used the GPS to find these today.

This was the hardest-to-get-to cache we've found yet! We had to hike through all sorts of sticks and vines to find it. Thankfully no sticker bushes or thorns or anything like that. It was sort of neat actually...

Now, my GPS was not being very helpful because in order for a GPS to work properly you have to be moving. However, when you are encapsulated by branches and sticks, moving doesn't come very easy. So in true spirit Jess and I just started searching through every nook and cranny we could find. In this picture she was standing almost right on top of it.

Can you spot it? Miraculously somehow I did.

The cache was almost rusted shut so I had to use my handy Gerber to pry it open. Jess thinks my "working face" is cute and likes this picture.

This next one was in the same park underneath this bridge. Even though the Geo Queen found it, she credits me with the idea of looking there.

There are little magnets inside the cache that keep it attached to the bridge.

I'm cheez'n it big time, baby.

We went to try to find one more, and we were REALLY close trudging through the woods, but my GPS quit and my fingers just about up and quit from the cold, so we headed back to the furnace on wheels, Bella, Jessica's fine steed (car).

Can you believe we've been finding at least two Geocaches every day for 7 days? We can't.

Before Jess and I came to Nashville we promised a lofty goal to find at least ONE Geocache every day. Well, we exceeded our own expectations and found 15 over 7 days! In a few weeks Jessica is coming to Maryland to finish out the rest of Christmas break, so who knows what adventures we will have there!