Sunday, August 05, 2007

Embracing Trees and Gnomes


Mannheim - only half an hour away but somehow neglected by us, no idea why!



We went geocaching at a really nice area with different enclosures with indigenous animals such as wild boar (they had babies, too!!) and deer. A bit drizzle here and there but overall a great walk. We started out calculating the first set of coordinates and guess what? I made a mistake that sent us about a whole kilometer out towards the opposite direction.. lol.. BUT another cache was along that route and the kids got to see the young boars and deer before we found the first cache. And who found it? Naaah.. not Alex our usual sniffer outer - meeeeee.. he he he.. he was a bit disappointed I´m afraid.. lol
So we continued to walk through the woods and corrected our miscalculation - oops, MY miscalculation and met some of the nicest dogs and people along the way. And then we started pine cone wars.. oh boy.. lol
And Isa had the "fallsies" - she NEVER falls but today she did.. 4 times! (counting walking into a tree.. lol).. here a picture taken by her bad mother the second after she hit the ground.. ha ha

After a nice long walk around a big pond and more calculating coordinates we finally found embracing trees... oops, again, I found it.. he he.. sorry Alex!

There were countless opportunities for climbing and playing along the whole route so we all had plenty of fun.
Gnome Pictures:







Right before we came back to our starting point it started drizzling harder and Alex said lightly "too bad it´s not a torrential downpour".. Thanks Alex! Guess what? Yup. loool...


So we got soaked and still had fun! While everyone dashed for shelter my kids were jumping around in the deepest puddles while getting drenched from all sides.. excellent.. lol
Small plus of that: Juju fell asleep on the way home and didn´t wake up until 7 the next morning.. lol

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