Prochein Amy

I was on the fence about these, but they do have Texas!

On our trip to Abilene, my husband brought up a fun way to have an adventure he had heard about from some friends. We decided to try it out – maybe since we were in a town we don’t live in. Have you heard of Geocaching?

Geocaching is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache’s existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS unit can then try to locate the geocache.

But what is a cache? There are many kinds that you can learn more on their website, but mostly we found small containers, like a prescription bottle, with a small paper log in it. You have to BYOP(en) and you write down the date and your name. Then you can go online and log your find. Our finds took us to places in Abilene we would not have visited on our own.

This is a great way to add adventure to your trips or (once you have purchased a GPS) a cheap way for entertainment. Many car navigators have a “walking” feature.

Are you already geocaching? Send me an email so I can “friend” you and see your adventures.

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Hat tip to GruntDoc!

Hello All!  I have neglected this blog long enough.  And I think I am suffering because it it.  Blogging is a type therapy for me.

Here are my extra curricular activities of late:

PTF President – I was elected this year for our school’s version of PTA.  As a uber-organizer, we have already started our planning and will meet with the Principal this week.

Tea Party Volunteer – My role was quite a bit more for the initial Tea Party Event on April 15th, but due to a  major work project, I have had to pull back.  So now I am helping maintain the website and doing video work.  If anyone has not heared of the Tea Party Movement, it is a grass roots effort started to let our elected officials know we are unhappy with their spending habits of our money and our children’s money.  It has expanded beyond that to our condern of not following the Constitution and the expanding goverenment.   The group I am involved with is non-partisian and very grass roots.  (More blogging on my involvement and going ons in the future.)

Next week I am a VBS volunteer at my parent’s church.  My Dad and I will be “herding”  our group of kids to each activity.  It should be a growing experience for me!

My goal is to blog at least once a week, so please come back!