Cache me if you can...

I know, I know... the Fourth of July is a holiday designed for families . . . after all that is the day we won our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of barbeques. In our family's case, we do most of our celebrating strange, we go to the fireworks on the third and spend time together doing fun things on the 5th. (We pretty much vegged on the 4th and watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium for about the trillionth time!)

Anyway, Kent and Joseph came up with a really fun thing to do called Geocaching. For those who have never done it, there are people who go into wherever and create a "cache" -- hiding it in plain sight. They put different things in this cache and then go online. On a specific website they list the GPS coordinates for everyone who see if they can find their "cache".

So on this crazy Fifth of July holiday the Kent Applegates turned into treasure hunters and headed out into the wilds (really we just four-wheeled across the wild terrain in our van -- I'm not too good without an air conditioner!) We actually looked for three different ones here in the Farmington area (out by the lake, up in the wilderness behind the high school and over by where they do the 4-wheel rock climbing competition every year). We were able to find 2 of them hidden pretty well (see the pictures), but the best part of the whole day was we really had a lot of fun doing it. We ended the fun day by going to the Gem and Mineral Show downtown that the city was putting on with the rest of the Fourth of July celebrations. It was cool to look at the different rocks, Kent had an in-depth conversation with one of the rock polisher guys / cutters and Tanner and Chelsea took a nice bonding time out sleeping in the hallway while we waited for Joe and Dad looking at the rocks after the above mentioned convo (okay, they did come in and look at all the rocks first).

We came home and had leftover steaks from the Fourth of July (oh yeah, we did do that) and ate a seeded watermelon (I know, I know Mom / Grandma -- I didn't buy it!).

All in all, it was a great day!