Graduate!

Congrats to Nelson for graduating from York University (BA Hnrs. Geography, Magna com Laude)!!

P.S~
we've been meaning to geocache for the longeessstt time! (I think the last time we updated was beginning of spring).. but life got in the way.. and a thing called money and paying for the Geocache Program itself got in the way as well. There is a fee of around 20$ we have to pay monthly to continue on our quest around the city (or world).. our free trial already expired lol. Soon though.. I promise! because geocaching is just so darn fun lol =)

4th Cache

Casino Royale's got nothing on the Palais Royale lol.

After a long day of work yesterday and after a verrryyy good turkey sandwich (hand made by my one 'n only) we set out on our 4th geocache adventure.
This one was a bit more challenging to find because of its location. The gps was pointing us at a location that could have been down low or up high.. what I mean by that is we were standing on a bridge (that crossed Lakeshore) and didn't think until the end that the geocache could have been hidden on that very bridge. We climbed down a fleet of stairs and were pointed to a parking lot that had a very good view of the Palais Royale. This "view" was important because the person who hid the cache mentioned that the location had a perfect view of the Palais. However something was a bit off because the gps kept fluctuating 5m-7m-1m.. wtf? Only one hour later did we realize that this could have meant above us. So yes, we found the cache at a rather interesting and unexpected location (the bridge) which had a perfect top view of the Palais.

Among the Clouds

Success!
After three hours of searching> we found our second and third geocaches =)
Both were located downtown and rather difficult to find! The first was a nanochip and it was placed at an interesting location (at Cloud Park @ Richmond and Yonge). I've always passed by that location but never realized how unique it was. In that little park there is a waterfall, little bridges to Terabithia (lol), and public access to an observatory and conservation area. Anewho, the pictures below are of the nanochip (which was magnetic.. and SOOOO hard to find, look at the size of it!).

The third cache was a litle easier. It was located at City Hall.. at the "ROOT of the City"> that was the hint =)

That's three finds in total! SCORE~

Geocache US!

I think this geocaching is gunna have to have a label of its own!

We are venturing off 2moro on another expedition.

This time we're focusing on D/T Toronto. I wonder what kind of treasure we'll find! As we're looking for our treasure we're gunna discuss where to hide a cache of our own. I am sooo excited!
This is our business card that we are going to leave behind in the containers after we find them:

This business card is accredited to Nelson's skills =D

*TFTC- thanks for the cache!

Geocache Me!

"We use billion dollar satellites to locate plastic containers on earth. What do you do?"

One thing my bf has always loved was the idea of geocaching! It's a modern day scavenger hunt with the use of a GPS =) The basic idea is- you search for a cache near you online, enter coordinates to GPS, find the location, search high and low to find a container, and upon success take something/ leave something behind for the owner =) Your success and all the visitors to your cache are tracked online.. and you can comment on the caches left behind by others.

So we embarked on our first journey today to High Park- where we successfully found a hidden box containing all sorts of goodies (what they were I will not mention, in case there are any geocachers around lol).

There was so much drama looking for it.. the most common phrases said were ..'are we walking in circles?', 'NO. Let me see it now', 'you're holding it wrong'.. and the most popular 'Look! Over there.. ahhh that's not it'. Haha. It was fun scavenging in the snow too!

Here are some pictures of our first find:


If you click on the title of this post, you will be re-directed to the global geo-cache website.