Our first Letterbox cache and find 250!

With 7 caches to go to get to 250, we made time on Saturday to find 3 caches and left 4 finds for Sunday to hit another milestone.  When we hit 100, and 200, I really did not pick a 'special' cache for us to find, so this time I decided to do some research.  I looked for some fun caches for the weekend and decided we'd get our first Letterbox cache for find 250!  Leading up to 250, we first dragged the grandparents to 3 other stops on Sunday's cache run.  The first was called The Big Bucket ( GCPENC ) and the name said it all... It was a 5 gallon bucket full of SWAG!  It was a great way to start our day off as the kids loved the easy find and giant bucket.  With the girls excited about the day of caching already (SUCCESS), we moved on to cache #2 which was a mystery cache called Geology ( GC221G6 ). 



@ the Geology cache

 Located on Sac State's campus the starting coordinates brought us to a rock garden where we had to match some rocks in the cache description to rocks in the garden.  After doing this we had to decipher some code and hope we matched the rocks correctly... Once we did this we had a new set of Coordinates and made our way to what we hoped was GZ, and it was!  We quickly found the cache (Grandpa did!) and we only needed 2 more finds to hit 250!!  From there I had a virtual cache for us to find next.  The Virtual was called Captain Hook ( GC456D ) , and it was at a cemetery.  Captain Hook was a nickname for someone as it turns out, and I told the kids we were going to 'Captain Hooks' grave.  This was an easy and interesting find, and the gravestone had a picture of a hook on it.  We now had one to go to hit 250 and had found a Traditional, Mystery, and Virtual cache in the same day.  The next find was going to be our first Letterbox cache and before we got to GZ I had to do some research on what that was?  A Letterbox cache is kind of like a mystery or mulit-cache.  Letterbox caches basically take you to a starting point and tell a story you have to follow to get to the end.  In following the story and clues you have to figure out a puzzle, and don't have the exact search spot most times.  The Letterbox cache we decided to go for was called 6th Inning - The Lingo ( GC24C9F ).  I love sports and this cache had us starting out at a baseball diamond, and the story we followed had a lot of baseball 'lingo'.  I loved finding the clues and then Grandpa made the find at the end!  He is getting good at making the find!!  It was a large bucket and it was full of SWAG!!  It was a great find for #250...   


The crew after the 250th find!