Last week I received an email that someone *a new cacher* had found it. It was their FIRST find! I send a welcome email - a few more back and forth - we are both Girl Scout Leaders and we both know DopeyDuck, another cacher. In fact this new cacher is IN Dopey's Service Unit! She asks if my girls can come to their meeting on February 22nd to teach about Geocaching.
February 22nd is World Thinking Day - the joint Birthday of Lord & Lady Baden-Powell - the founders of Scouting in England & good friends of Juliette Gordon Lowe - founder of Girl Scouts in the USA! - We will be getting patches to give to this troop of Juniors - because although we are from different Countries (World Thinking Day is when Girl Scouts & Guides World-Wide think about their sister scouts EVERYWHERE) we are different troops and different Service Units.
I say yes. But, as my girls are nearly all in High School and almost always busy on Fridays -- I say that I can have two there - Foxhound & Nat -- then we find out Nat is singing at a very special event --- in Hollywood (Sunday Feb 24th) She has been working for MONTHS with her choir...
So it is just me and Fox. She was mostly quiet for the entire time. Says she never knows what to say in front of people she doesn't know. That is fine except that I was hoping for it to be "girl teaching girls".
We brought a bag full of different containers - ready to hide and in their "original form" We had print-outs from the Geocaching.com website. We had our pink "My Little Pony Geo-Stuff backpack". We talked about the different sizes and types of caches and some of the terms. We shared our special Travel Bugs and explained that most travel from cache to cache AROUND the WORLD
and I just talked.
The girls asked questions.
No script - just "winging it" - It was great!
Then we all went out and drove to the park where Fox & I found our FIRST Multi-Cache - Our FIRST FTF (First to Find) AND our FIRST encounter with other Geocachers (in the field) and THEY turned out to be the hiders of the FIRST cache that Foxhound & I ever found! The "Cache of FIRSTS". It is still there and it is "Pinecrest Wilderness Walk Multi" http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1604604a-2ca7-4590-aaeb-dd7b159b24cd
The cache we actually went there to find is "Rancho Trabuco GS Patch Letterbox Cache" http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=27fb3bf0-07d6-4609-8313-a08938e438d0
That birdhouse above their heads is part of an Eagle Scout Project!
After this we drove back to find Passion for Cachin'
It truly seemed the girls had a great time
- I hope we managed to cover most of what they needed to earn the Geacaching Badge! I had a very good time - I love teaching others about Geocaching!
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