Thanksgiving and Geocaching
With my parents having moved to South Carolina this year, Thanksgiving 2010 was actually the first for me where I didn’t have family fairly close by to celebrate with. Kristin’s family is in Minnesota, so we decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner and invite any friends who were going to be in town to join us.
Along with being new to hosting Thanksgiving, this was also the first time I’ve attempted to cook a turkey. I did some research and settled on a fresh free range turkey, brined it for 12 hours, smothered it in butter and herbs, and popped it in the oven. It came out fully cooked and very juicy…delicious. The rest of the meal came together well and three of our friends arrived for food and some football watching.
Today, I met up with Jon and Jason to do some geocaching. I’d done this once before. Some time in the past, someone hid a container, ranging in size from a centimeter, to one of those large metal ammo boxes. They publish the coordinates and you use a GPS to get close to where it’s hidden, usually in the woods somewhere. Once you get to the point, 
you’re usually off by 100 feet or so and you have to run around looking under rocks, in logs, etc, to find it. The two we did today each consisted of 3 points. The first two points contained clues needed to get to the next point, and the last point has a log book in it you sign and some random items that people sometimes leave or exchange. They were both fairly challenging but we found them. It ended up being a nice way to play outside without having to drive a couple hours to find a place where it’s entertaining enough to go hiking.
Here are a few pictures from the geocaching outing.
