Geocaching Party

Elliot's turning 9 soon, and since we'll be in California on his birthday, we had his party this last Saturday. Elliot's new favorite thing - second only to basketball - is geocaching, so naturally, that's what he wanted to invite his friends to do. Nathan was only too happy to plan the whole thing (we need to have these kind of parties more often!)
For anyone who's not cool enough to know what geocaching is: You use a handheld GPS to find caches (treasures) of various sizes, that others have hidden at certain coordinates. Once found, you write your name in the log book that's inside and then you can take any object or trinket out of the cache as long as you replace it with something of equal value.
For Elliot's party, I went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of small toys and gave them to the boys to keep or trade as they wanted. Nathan bought them each a neat water bottle holder that can be attached to a belt loop. This ended up being a bit of a nuisance for the boys that weren't wearing a belt and had to hold on to their pants the entire time to keep them from falling down!

This is the first cache they found. I love this picture.



Nathan's taking a video of the boys with his iPod in this picture.

We only had one minor injury. William scratched his face in this mess of twigs when they got a little off course. What's funny about this next picture is that ALL of them are right there in front of that middle tree. You just can't see them.

The coolest part of the hunt was walking through this long, creepy, wet drainage pipe.

These guys found all eight caches they went after and they had a BLAST doing it. Three of the boys didn't even know what geocaching was before they went with Elliot!