First Geocaching Adventure

Today Jake and I decided to go on our very first geocaching adventure!!  We went to the geocaching website (http://www.geocaching.com/), signed up, and picked five of the ones that were designated for "beginners".  Then we took our GPS and headed out to explore!!  Our first cache was hidden in a guard rail on the side of the road.  We didn't take anything from it, but we did add a plastic molar on a keychain!!  (Hey, you KNEW I was going to do something tooth related!)  The next one we found was in a very clever spot.  If we had visited this particular area and were not actively looking for something, we would have never seen this!!!  The third one was more difficult to find, but well worth the hunt.  There was a lady standing on her porch at a house nearby that looked like it should be on that TV show "Hoarders".  Seriously.  They had so much crap on the outside of their house that hadn't been touched in years.  And she called out to us, "Hey are you having a yard sale?" Apparently she thought we were placing yard sale signs and not looking for caches.  Trust me, this lady does not need to be going to yard sales.  The fourth cache we looked for was supposed to be very easy.  "Just drive by and grab the cache" said the website.  It was easy, but you still had to get out of the car and look for it.  It wasn't in plain sight like we were led to believe!  Still, a fun find!  The last one was very cleverly hidden.  We spent the most amount of time looking for it.  It was hidden under a moss-covered stump, off the road, and behind the trees.  Of course we are in Oregon, so there were lots of trees everywhere and lots of stumps everywhere.  And the clue we were given was "Don't get stumped".  Hmmm....super helpful.  We had a really great time and plan on doing more geocaching soon!!