Geocaching

One of our new favorite things today is Geocaching. Wikipedia tells it better then I can... 

Geocaching /ˈdʒiːəˌkæʃɪŋ/ is an outdoor recreational activity, in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.

A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little financial value, although sometimes they are sentimental. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking..

I just downloaded an app to my iphone - it was $10.00- and off we went. The kids LOVED it. We spent all day Saturday driving around finding caches. We had SO MUCH FUN! Some of the caches were just logs, for us to write our names in and others were canisters that had treasure inside for the kids to trade with. I think this is going to be one of our favorite go to activities, that we can do ANYWHERE we go. We think it would be fun to hide a cache in different place we go and visit. We think it would be fun next time we are in Oregon to not only go and find a cache but also make one to hide with Grandma Nette and Papa Joe.