It was a tough choice between going to Lincoln City, and swimming in the South Santiam River to play with Odder, but we decided to stick with our original RSVP and go to the Oregon coast. As it turned out, the weather was beautiful, but very windy; and we had a great time.
My parents met me (Dude), Sweet, and cuteTpie at the Lincoln City Community Center for some good ol' fashioned Geocaching Games. Bostonmangum hosted another fun event which draws scores of geocachers from around Oregon. He always puts on a great event and is very gracious. This days events included a variety of event-only caching games including "Find the Nano", "Find Ground Zero", "The Multi/Puzzle to Find Ground Zero", "Create a Star, Smiley Face, or Object" with your GPSr track feature, and finally "Complete the Quest" task which was similar to a letterbox in which you use clues, rather than a GPSr to locate a final location.
We all had a blast completing the games and comparing the three different GPSr's that we had brought. My Dad finally began using his Garmin iQue M5 for more than just a paperweight. A few days prior to the event, I learned how to upload a GPX file with 500 geocaches to his iQue. One of the caches was the event, and I set him up with turn-by-turn routing to the event. It all seemed to work okay as they ended up parking next to us at the event.
After completing the games, Ivan had a drawing for prizes and passed out authentic Japanese glass fishing floats. These were not the "art-glass" types of floats you'd see in a gallery, but were gathered along the beaches of Alaska. We each picked out a float as a reminder of our day. During the prize drawing, Sweet's number was called and she chose a camping headlamp. cuteTpie and I won mini-kites.
After the event, we all enjoyed a yummy picnic lunch my Mom (mummu3) had prepared. My Dad and I went on a self-guided tour of the Community Center and we were both impressed with the facility. It was nice to see how the community has supported a facility like this.
After lunch, Sweet & Mummu3 wanted to do a "quick" shopping trip at the Factory Outlet Center; and then it was off to the beach. I used my double-top secret way to the Taft Waterfront and we all found parking clo
se by.
My parents met me (Dude), Sweet, and cuteTpie at the Lincoln City Community Center for some good ol' fashioned Geocaching Games. Bostonmangum hosted another fun event which draws scores of geocachers from around Oregon. He always puts on a great event and is very gracious. This days events included a variety of event-only caching games including "Find the Nano", "Find Ground Zero", "The Multi/Puzzle to Find Ground Zero", "Create a Star, Smiley Face, or Object" with your GPSr track feature, and finally "Complete the Quest" task which was similar to a letterbox in which you use clues, rather than a GPSr to locate a final location.
We all had a blast completing the games and comparing the three different GPSr's that we had brought. My Dad finally began using his Garmin iQue M5 for more than just a paperweight. A few days prior to the event, I learned how to upload a GPX file with 500 geocaches to his iQue. One of the caches was the event, and I set him up with turn-by-turn routing to the event. It all seemed to work okay as they ended up parking next to us at the event.
After completing the games, Ivan had a drawing for prizes and passed out authentic Japanese glass fishing floats. These were not the "art-glass" types of floats you'd see in a gallery, but were gathered along the beaches of Alaska. We each picked out a float as a reminder of our day. During the prize drawing, Sweet's number was called and she chose a camping headlamp. cuteTpie and I won mini-kites.
After the event, we all enjoyed a yummy picnic lunch my Mom (mummu3) had prepared. My Dad and I went on a self-guided tour of the Community Center and we were both impressed with the facility. It was nice to see how the community has supported a facility like this.
After lunch, Sweet & Mummu3 wanted to do a "quick" shopping trip at the Factory Outlet Center; and then it was off to the beach. I used my double-top secret way to the Taft Waterfront and we all found parking clo
se by.I think it is safe to say that we all had a great time flying our new kites, playing in the sand and water. We did work up quite a hunger and ended up walking down the beach to Mo's. After dinner, we bid farewell to my parents. Now it was time for some serious geocaching! We were able to find 7 caches, plus the event, and posted a DNF. The day was just too beautiful and we would have liked to have stayed a little longer. As it turned out, we didn't leave Lincoln City until about 10:30pm and finally arrived back in Albany at midnight.
What a fantastic day and a fun way to spend Father's Day Saturday.
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