Corn Maze by Night

not a night cache but a night trip to the corn maze.. too cool!
Just us girls decided to go and explore the corn maze with our flashlights.. maybe we should have taken the GPS to backtrack.. ha ha.. it was really great and we came back around 23:00 after hours of fun in the corn, by the campfire, on the playground in the dark :-) A definite must for next year, too!

MAGC Heidelberg

Of course there´s a little "subdivision" in the geocaching world that is military... :-)
They are called the "Military Association of Geocachers" - MAGC. They are a great bunch of folks and we had the first Charter Meeting for Germany on Saturday, way up in the hills of Heidelberg. Of course there was caching involved but I didn´t get to do any :-( On the way there we got lost (co-pilot was asleep and it was hard to read the WRONG directions from Map24 and avoid the tourists all over town) so no caching beforehand, on the way back I wanted to do just a short cache but then DH decided he didn´t want to do any caching.. so boohoo to me 8) and oh well, but at least we all went and that was great!


We met a bunch of really great folks although I wish we could have stayed longer.. next time!
One of the bonuses was that we got to see some paragliders gear up and start - one of them was carrying his child who was about the age of Isa or maybe a year younger.. wow..











Awesome view!!

Sibling torture.. lol.. they love it!

please do my face, too!!!


On the way back we stopped in PHV for some serious playground time - yippeh!!







we were under adult supervision :-)

Niersteiner Hölle

well well.. the other day, Isa decided to stay with Omi.. another Omi overnight - great for me, great for Isa - let me leave it at that. he he he.. nah, really, Omi rather enjoys having her there! At least most of the time :-)
I had seen that there was a new cache up on the way home, up in the vineyards, and only one person had found it so far - sunny weather, nobody at home waiting - where is the catch? NOWHERE! lol.. Juju and I parked in Nierstein right outside a winegrower's place where there were bottles for sale on a table. Yup, bottles, grapes, jams and a small box where you put your money. This is Germany, remember? :-) And what was in the bottles? Old wine (last year´s) and young wine from last week.. hmmmm... red Federweißer (young wine which is still fermenting)... So that was a perfect reward for when we would come back to the car!

Up into the vineyards we climbed and ate some really yummy grapes along the way, just the ones they left behind though... After a quick find and an awesome view we just hung out in the sun, sat in the tower up there, played with bugs and things before climbing back down to Nierstein.

My cache, my sours....

Fresh off the vine - have you ever eaten fresher grapes???

can i fit the whole thing in my mouth?

running downhill is ggrrrreeeeaaaatttt

BTW, the nice thing about potty training and caching is that you´re generally somewhere in nature and Juju can squat virtually anywhere.. he he he.. fertilizer! sorry, had to mention that. grin
This was a great little afternoon cache, we had a great time and yes, I rewarded myself with a bottle of fresh bubbly red Federweißer.. which I opened that evening, too!

Caching in K-Town

Saturdays are great for caching :-D So last Saturday I packed the kids (all 3 present) and drove down to K-Town with them for some caching.. there was a series calles "when nature calls" which had finals with a plunger, a brush etc.. :-) fun!!

meeting fellow cachers in the woods :-)

In between we went to Vogelweh for some food, gas and a quick commissary trip just to return to a forest area behind the Technical University for some more caching :-)))


Afterwards we stayed at a "Waldspielplatz" until it got dark.. boooooooh!



TWISTED!!!

The walk back through the dark forest was fun - more fun for some of us.. he he.. less for others!

Ballett - 40 Years Lerchenberg

The little suburb I grew up in turned 40.... and they had a "dance of the generations" show where Isa danced.. of course.. when doesn´t she ever? lol..
So here just some pics of her and her friends :-D

Cheeeeeeeeeeeese!

Cache'n Climb Wiesbaden

AWWWEEESOOOMEEE! What a cool time we had on the Neroberg in Wiesbaden. There´s a really cool ropes course with different difficulty levels and even a small little kid climbing playground in the woods that had been on our "to-do" list for a while...





hmm.. wonder if Alex will be alright
Since 2 Cachers planned an event up there, we had to attend... It´s really hard to describe but I guess the most important thing to say is: We had unbelievable fun!

three of the kids on this picture.. find them! :-D
While I stayed on semi-solid ground with the litte ones and let them climb around on the kiddo course, Alex went up to the red course... I caught him falling once, too! It was great.. he he he.. unfortunately, the camera wasn´t ready.. so I had to take a picture of his recovery :-D




After the red course he ventured on to the black one.. tough!!! A couple of climbers had to call it quits on that one, especially if they had done another course previously. I have no idea how I would have done because I couldn´t leave the little ones alone down there, could I? lol
After Alex was done we went into the forest to do some caching :-D

As we left the trail, a group of 3 followed us.. then a couple more and we ended up caching in a pack - it was fun! It was sort of inevitable since there were over 200 Cachers present - more than I had ever seen!!! One cache in particular was quite memorable - it was uuuuup in a tree which called for some serious team work...




Good thing there were plenty of people around to talk smack, huh? But we did it!!!!! And we met some really great people there - some whose names I had read, one whom I´d been emailing with before from North Carolina and a couple more from various places throughout the world. The wife of the owner of geocaching.com was there with their son and after we bumped into them in the middle of the woods she was sweet enough to give us one of their coins :-D Alex loves to show it off.. he has definitely been bitten by the caching bug and wants his own GPS now.. we´ll see :-)

After a loooong day in and around the forest we drove back home in a very quite car... everyone was comatose but me - duuuh.. one of the best days in a long time!