Got to go geocaching with the whole family today…and with Nate, Camille and their mom and dad!! I was stoked because I love geocaching way more than anybody else in our family does, so having Kathleen (Nate’s mom) suggest it was an awesome way to get everyone more into it!
I picked out the area–Seymour Marine Discovery Center–because I knew there were lots to be found and that there were some kid-friendly ones, too, that were likely to have swag. Plus, if the kids got bored, there’s always the whale bones to look at or just the whole area to run around in…
Dylan turned out to be the eagle-eye in our group. He was the first to find this one (one I’d never found before either) just hanging off a low bush!
Nate is telling Dylan where the GPS is pointing…it just so happens that there were also tons of dolphins swimming very close to shore in that direction as well! We got a special treat in being able to see them during our search!
You can see, it was a gorgeous day…the view of the ocean never gets old!!
Just in case, y’all don’t remember, Nate and Dylan went to pre-school together…we’re putting in efforts to keep the friendship strong. They’re so sweet together and we love Nate’s family!
Well, the boys are at different elementary schools now, but Nate’s little sister Camille is in the pre-school with Cameron now! It was very sweet that they were so excited to see one another, too! They headed out together, hand in hand….
Dylan also found our final cache of the morning! While we were all fussing with devices looking up hints and checking coordinates, Dylan pipes up with, “hey! there’s something stuck in here[a brick he found under a bush]!” and, boom(!), there was the geocache!
We had to part ways after finding this one…both Cameron and Camille, on the pre-school’s schedule– were clearly ready to wrap it up!
It was such a beautiful Santa Cruz day! But, I apparently bad ju-ju’d us by writing that post about Cameron’s tantrums improving…she’s had some epic meltdowns these past couple of days, including today!
And Dylan has been spending nearly every Friday night at Heather’s house (we picked him up from their place on our way to geocaching this morning)…!All this to say that the kids are sleeping like logs (while Tom saws some!!)
It seems a good time to catch up with the blog!
