Looking for micro objects

Last weekend we used up all of our family fun money at Discovery Kingdom, so we had to come up with something fun that did not cost a cent. Our friends the Turpins have been into geocaching recently and I had looked into it in the past, so we decided to try it out. We quickly cleaned the house and then headed out and made the mistake that most newbie geocachers do. We didn't really read up too well on what we were supposed to do. It was a two part cache. The first one leads you to the next and final cache. It took us quite a while, it was hot, there were poky stickers all in our shoes and socks, the kids were a bit tired and hungry... and we could not find that dang micro cache. Amelia and I were looking in one tree while Sam and the other girls and dog were looking in another tree, when Amelia's tooth came out and landed in a whole bunch of debris. To make a long story short, we found the caches, but never found Amelia's tooth. She wrote a note to the toothfairy and everything is good in the world. We are all excited to do more geocaching in the future, I think I will actually pay the $9.99 and get their office ap though. After the adventure we headed down the walking trails and to the lake. We all waded and Pascal had the time of his life playing fetch in the water. All this and we never even had to get in the car. It was a nice Saturday. 

The new bridge that was recently built on the trail.
They are doing some amazing things on the trail.

Amelia's gap.

Pascal with his squeaky hot dog toy

Lucy playing fetch with the dog.

Lovely Leila on the river bank

Headed back home. Joy insisted on hiking on her own and carrying her own backpack. We start them young ;)
These girls are so much fun. The street looking thing is the bike path that goes along the river.