Our 200th Find!

We had not seen any interesting geocaches in a while, and had planned to take the girls treasure hunting this past weekend.  The past few weeks we had been out a handful of times and just never came across any interesting finds or locations to write about.  We researched a few different options for day trips and found a saved article on 88 Giant Burger To Go in Pine Grove, CA.  (About an hour from Sacramento).  It looked interesting and was close enough for us to drive for lunch while squeezing in some geocaching along the way.  We left in time to arrive for lunch at 12:30, and as we were getting close everyone was getting hungry!  As we pulled up to the address, we all saw a building under construction.  :(  The restaurant we wanted to go to was no longer there!?!  It appeared to either be changing owners or going through a remodel, but it was definitely NOT open.  With everyone hungry and few options for lunch we quickly found a cafe about 8 miles away in the GPS's points of interest.  Not wanting to waste much time we just started driving.  We ended up in a small Mom and Pop place called Cafe 26 in the town of West Point.  It was VERY GOOD and the service was great too!  Since this was 8 windy miles out of the way, we backtracked to the Pine Grove area where we planned to find our treasures for the day.  Turns out we only needed 6 to hit 200 (for some reason I thought we needed 8 to get to 200!!)  Thinking we needed 8 to hit 200, I figured we'd find 7, then plan a Mystery cache or long hike or something different for #200 when we got back to Sac for another day.  We found 5 QEF caches and made our way to a Cemetery that had 2 hidden in it.  After we found what turned out to be our 200th find ( GCGTJD ),  (Yeah when we got home we figured it out!) we had to walk about 125 yards across the cemetery to the last find.  On our way there we came across a back corner of the cemetery that had what seemed like a shrine.  There was a picnic table and a 7 foot tall cylinder with a bench inside, that appeared to be for just one person's plot.     

The girls sat inside the cylinder on the bench for a picture but we kept wondering what it's purpose was?  Why was it there?  Had we driven to the last geocache instead of walking through the cemetery we would never of seen this structure.  One of the cool things about geocaching is the places you see that you would not of, or the interesting things you might come across, and I guess that made our 200th find cool and interesting!  At night this part of the cemetery would of been PITCH BLACK AND CREEPY!  I don't know why, but I never went into the cylinder!