Monday, September 17, 2012

Lazy weekend

So Kendall is a year older, 8 years now. We celebrated the event in Williamsburg at a pottery place where you get to paint the glaze before the pieces are fired. I rode my motorcycle separate from the others as it was a great excuse to ride up Colonial Parkway and the weather was perfect.

After painting, we headed over to friendly's for lunch. Kendall had a friend sleepover the previous night so the girl's were pretty wound up.



Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Tenth Annual GCHR picnic

While it is not quite yet official, the official logbook of attendance had 525 signatures. This makes it Virginia's first Geocaching Mega event. The event, As usual was held in Newport News park which is one of the area's largest city parks. Surrounding the Newport News city reservoir, this park boasts miles of walking and riding trails. Hundreds of campsites, boating, several playground and picnic area's. It also has a very nice discovery center with information on the local wildlife and area. Time the west end is the Deer park golf course and to the south is the frisbee golf course. It also has a full equestrian area with trails open.

The event kicked off with the usual fanfare but was well organized with lots of volunteers working parking, registration, X games, logbook and event store.  I volunteered to do facepainting and was kept busy until about lunch time. The group had designed a huge log that was a mock up of a ammo can only on a bigger scale. There were door prizes, silent auctions, games, egg hunts