Christmas Break Begins!

Nashville is chocked full of Geocaches and parks, and on this particular day, sub-freezing temperature. However thankfully for us our first Cache was inside! We were able to go inside a cool nature center at Edwin-Warner, the park we were at. This is a picture of me signing the log. This Cache had a lot of stuff inside it, including a DVD, actually. You can see it sitting there on my left.

Then Jess and I began our hunt for the second Cache of the day. I decided we had to stop and notice how cute she is standing on that rock on the pond. We decided to go for an afternoon swim shortly after.

Along the trail Jess noticed this interesting frozon "cotton" we called it. It looks like frozen fibers, but it turns out its just frozen ice! We took some home with us later, but it when Jess went to find it, it was gone... or melted.
The second cache was a bit tricky to find, but after much determination we found it sitting next to a tree off the trail. Not being able to find the cache initially heated us up, as you can see Jess without her hat on. I saw on the Geocache website a few pictures of three year olds holding the cache and I thought to myself, if a 3 year old girl can find this, certainly I can.
A lot of the part we were at is for nature watching, so we hiked up to this overlook and watched the sun go down on the mountains.

And soon, very soon, after this picture was taken we booked it back to the car before the sun went down. It was an excellent day. Thanks for checking in!

Our First Cache!

When we looked out of our windows we were greeted by a dusting of snow! What better time to go geocaching? So I (Josh) ambled with my cup of cocoa in hand over to Centenary Avenue to greet the snow angel (Jessica). She was examining the snow flakes because she doesn't get to see them often enough, unlike her northern counterpart.

(What is Geocaching you might ask? Well, Geocaching is like a high tech scavenger hunt that happens world wide. Little boxes that contain a wide variety of objects from trinkets to things called trackables, which if people choose to take them along travel from cache to cache. All of them have a log which shows you when people were there last. There are almost a million geocaches worldwide, so there is no end to this fun! go to Geocaching.com to learn more about it.)

We strolled gingerly down Willow Ave. to find the elusive cache, using my handy dandy iPhone, which contains infinite knowledge of all things, including coordinates to all the geocaches in the world. Not to be confused with the omniscience of God, which includes foreknowledge, which is not part of my iPhone's monthly plan. Just unlimited texting.

We walked down the Greenway to admire God's snowy handiwork that morning, and it felt magical to say the least. A lot like Narnia, Jessica says. Except a Narnia with geocaching.

(Thats me holding the Geocache)

And even though we found a geocache that morning, we were most happy that we found each other at the end of Centenary Avenue. No coordinates needed.

What a great way to start an adventure!