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Apr. 17, 2007 - Fun with Geocaching
Family Life
"Using Billion Dollar Satalites to Find Tupperware"
I was visiting Mother Hen over at Sweet Life and she posted about Geocaching an adventure our family started back in September. My My Best Girlfriend! and her family initially got us started when we went camping together. After some delays, we were finally able to invest in a GPS unit and our family has been treasure hunting ever since.
While there are many educational benefits to Geocaching, there are other benefits as well. Since we are often hiking to find out hidden treasures we get a good amount of exercise during our Geocaching excursions. Another benefit is we get to spend the day together outdoors as a family with no television or computer in site. By far my favorite benefit to Geocaching is seeing our family work together as a team. While it might seem the adults have the advantage with Geocaching, it is often our children who think outside the box who locate the cache first. It has been so great to see the kids working together to reach a common goal.
Since the kids have different areas of interest, they often go their separate ways when the school day ends. Geocaching has given our family an opportunity to come together on common ground. No one seems to have an advantage and as a result we all have a blast as a family.
Comments
Apr. 20, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by drewsfamilytx
That sounds like such fun! I've been meaning to try it with my family for some time... My husband is great at directions, my kids love to treasure hunt, and well...I just go along for the ride (coffee in hand, of course!). ;-)
Have a great weekend!
Marsha
