Park and Grab Expressway

Today was a geocaching event called the Park and Grab Expressway, put on by the same couple that hosts the Christmas party and other events here and there. We had to find four puzzle caches, where usually what you do is solve a puzzle to get the right coordinates, but for the event they just gave us the coordinates. Over the summer I heard another cacher (Hal) was really ill with prostate cancer and didn't know if he'd make it, so I was very pleased when I saw him at the event. It was hard for him to walk, but he seemed happy and in good spirits, which was awesome. We got paired with partners for the event, and Hal was my partner. It was really nice just driving the backroads of the hills with him and talking and having fun geocaching..the weather has been absolutely AMAZING this weekend, in the 50s and 60s with blue skies. We had some great views of the Alaska Range, which I hadn't seen in forever since it had been raining for like two months straight..they looked so white and perfect and glorious in the sun. <3 For the caches, you were supposed to notice what was on them or around them, like numbers on the box or smiley faces on the lid and stuff like that. We'd get quizzed at the end about what we'd notice and have to enter a code to open an ammo can and win the elusive ~Golden Nano~ haha. Before we started out the guy said we'd be going to someone's house, which the owner knew about already. So Hal and I pulled into a house's driveway and were like "well this is weird O_o" haha. We were poking around and looking under the stairs and stuff, and Hal was like "are you sure we're at the right house??" so I looked and NO, the correct house was ANOTHER MILE DOWN THE STREET!! AHHH OMG haha! I'm really glad the owners weren't around, that would have been even more embarrassing haha. I hope they don't have cameras. :P At the correct house was a lady dressed up as a man, and we had to solve a riddle to get a clue..ours was something like "if you buy a dozen 3 cent stamps, how many do you have?" Hal was like "..uhhh, 3??" and I thought about it for another second and I was like "12!!" Yay me haha. I grabbed a candy bar from her bag, even though I don't like peanut butter, and stuck it in my pocket. After finding all the caches we met back up at the place where we started. We got quizzed on what we saw in and around the caches (the first people to get back to the building got a prize as well)..a lot of the things we noticed were red herrings lol. There was a tie between a bunch of people (we knew the first three numbers, but had to guess the fourth), so the host (sorry, forgot his name lol) asked if anyone grabbed a certain item out of a cache..one guy did, but his guess was wrong, so the host asked if anyone had taken candy from the riddle cache..lots of people did, but we had to have the wrapper to prove it. I pulled mine out of my pocket, and I was the only one to have it on me! So I got to guess, and when I turned to three the lock popped open!! I guess not liking peanut butter can help after all. :P There were two Golden Nanos, so I gave one to Hal, since he was my partner lol. The event was so fun..I'm pretty sure that's the most fun Hal's had in a long time. He hugged me and his wife said she was glad I was his partner..aww lol. Hopefully he'll be well enough to go to the Christmas party too! Very fun, satisfying day :D

Look how gorgeous it was!

I wish I could have gotten a better pic, but I seriously couldn't see the screen at all haha..the Alaska Range looked grand though <3

On Friday I saw the Northern Lights for the first time this season! Yay, I love watching them dance. :D And amazingly, there is NO RAIN in the forecast for the next week!!! A little is ok, but two months of it is depressing D:

( September 29-30 )