The boys and I have spent the past few days cleaning the house and getting ready for company but we've also managed to make a few excursions out and about. We picked up geocaching from one of our Alaskan friends (thanks again Finley crew) last spring and decided to give it a whirl on our own. Geocaching is using multimillion dollar satellites to find gedunk aka a cache(ammo cans/tupperware) in the woods. A lot of caches are exciting to the boys; they get to trade in small toys for someone else's small toys and learn how to use GPS at the same time. Some caches (generally micro or minicaches) don't excite the boys because they are simply about the hunt and offer no extrinsic reward. The Alaskan wilderness (or not so wilderness in this case) isn't always human friendly as this is the time of year that the mosquitoes feast. So many organisms have short active phases that everything is going wild right now (including the boys). Most of our excursions have taken us through weeds and grasses as tall as the boys. One has whined about bugs while the other clings to mommy's legs. Our searches have also led us to playtime in two new parks (Wonderland-BIG playground and Carter's-ducks). We have also discovered a super cool ice cream shop called Scoops ---The shop is decorated in retro 50s style and offers a game room to rent for ice cream socials.
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