Puzzle, Then Another

Well today was a big day, today I was going to hit 300 my mother Victoree was going to hit 100 and my sister BeFri was hitting 50! So we had to plan our days around these events. At the start of the day Victoree needed 2 more caches, I needed 9 and Befri 8. So first we needed to knock off Victoree's 2. So we decided we would do two puzzle caches located in Barsa a section of Rothesay.

The first one was GC1KFJ9 What?? Yu Dunt Spikka Da Lingwidge?? It was a puzzle cache where you needed to do all the work on your computer before you left to grab this one, so at least before we headed out we knew where it was! So we headed in from the Dolan Rd, so we came to the entrance of the power field only to find the road had been blocked by some large rocks, but this did not stop us, we took a look over to the ATV trail and I said "I can drive up there!" so with Victoree being very worried we drove up to the ATV trail and under a power line tower and into the power field and we drove back onto the road and we were off. We continued down the road which eventually turned into a very rugged dirt road, and we approached a large hill, not large as in HUGE, but could be a challenge for a Toyota Echo so we drove up a bit to see what the other side looked like, and we approached the top and I said "Nope we need to walk from here" so I slowed back down the hill and parked the car to the side of the trail. We jumped out of the car and headed up the small hill now for a walker. We continued down the trail and we eventually came to the point where the GPSr pointed right into the woods, so we trekked into the brush. Victoree was a bit slower to get in but I had plowed through to find the cache, I was looking at the GPSr screen and it kept on pointing forward so I kept on going looking all over the cache. Next thing you know I here Victoree say "Here it is" I turn around and there she was holding the very unique cache, I walked right past it and di not give it a second glance!

So once we had signed the log we headed out and back to the car, once we jumped in we were off to the next cache, and back out of the power field and under the power line tower.

So the next cache we were after took us to another graveyard cache, GC102XD The Bag Lady ws here, this cache took us to Saint Patricks Chatholic Church in Barsa. So originally we thought this would be nice and easy since it was a graveyard cache, however this did not prove to be true! So we decided that we would start from one side of the yard and move to the other side. Once we had searched the entire yard we came up short by 2 numbers needed for the equation. So we decided we would do another sweep from side to side, although it took some more time we eventually came up with the last two numbers. We checked the checksums and we were good to go, we punched the numbers into the GPSr and we were off. The GPSr took us to a small gated road that was at the far end of the yard, so we ducked under the gate and kept on walking, we only had 200 more feet to go and we walked by some dumped trash, tires, stollers and couches, so we could not CITO it. At the trail we were about 40 feet away from the cache and we headed into the woods, and after a few minutes we had located the cache, Victoree was at 99, and I need 9 more to be at 299.

So we were all very excited that she had reached 99, now we needed to head back home pick up BeFri and drop off Victoree, and head out to pick up a few more caches.

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