When asked what she would like to do on her birthday, it was really no surprise Kesara said that she wanted to go caching. We grabbed our usual supplies and hit the road. Our first find of the day parked us in a quaint little church, then sent us immediately bushwhacking. A short hike, some greenbriars, and a very close encounter with a spider that Kesara swears up and down was day-glow yellow, we made our first find of the day.



We made a quick pit stop at a local playground for a quick micro grab, then made our way down the road to what turned out to be a really cool cache. We made a trek into a little patch of forest by a nearby shopping center, and came across a treehouse built in the middle of it. Of course, we both thought "Wow, what an awesome place for a cache!" Turns out, though, that we may have to place one there, because the cache we set out for was sneaky enough to make us blaze right past it on our way to what we thought was obviously the place for it... When we did eventually find it, we found a travel bug that started all the way in Hagenhill, Germany. This little bug is trying to see as many pretty places as possible, and we had an upcoming trip that sounded perfect for him. More about that in a few posts.

We managed to log our very first Virtual Cache on this trip as well. Being a native of the area, Kesara had been to this spot dozens of times in the past. Headed back, we hit a micro along the way. We parked and I jumped out to grab it. Perhaps I was a touch too excited to find a micro that was something besides a nano or hidden under a lightpole skirt, because upon re-entering the car, I proceeded to hit my ear on the car door and pinball the other side of my head into the door frame. Once Kesara stopped giggling long enough to get something for my now throbbing noggin, we set out for the last find of the day.



Fighting through a headache to play navigator to one more find, we pulled off the main road to hit a themed cache. After a simple enough hunt, we tracked down the "public safety" cache, and traded out a traffic cop playschool toy for a piece of crime scene equipment. (Okay, so it was a ruler, but it was a really snazzy one...) Not a bad way to celebrate another year.

~Brody