Geocaching (Famous Last Words)
May 4, 2007
While driving Anne to the subway station in the morning, our plan for after work was simple, "Go to Tim Horton's, go home, eat pizza, veg on the couch, take a bath, go to bed". Then I added, "Unless Futureshop tells me that the pictures we sent are ready for pickup, in which case, there's two geocaches nearby."
Of course, the pictures we sent to Futureshop were ready in record time. So after work, our plan now involved driving to the Ontario Science Centre while eating addictive veggies chips, going to Wal-mart, and eventually, getting those pictures from Futureshop.
The traffic was heavy around the Ontario Science Centre, but we eventually got there. Then Frank swears, and adds "We have to pay for parking?" Famous last words. Well, into the parking lot we go, then park and walk towards the front entrance. The description said that we didn't have to pay admission to get to this geocache.
And we didn't. It was this giant spike right in front of the front entrance. It was setup to make it look like it had travelled through the concrete and through the barriers around it, supposedly due to plate tectonics. Very informative.
We then headed back to the parking lot, and drove towards the exit, and hey, we didn't have to pay. Anne guesses that it's because we arrived after the Ontario Science Centre after it had closed.
The next geocache is somewhere in the Wal-mart parking lot, away from the store entrance, near a no parking sign. This should be a piece of cake, as how many "no parking" signs are there in a parking lot? Again, famous last words. The signs were all over the parking lot, and even after we got close, we still couldn't find it. It wasn't hidden in the holes in the concrete barriers. It wasn't attached to the guard rail. It was wasn't there. We even went into the store to take a break. We came back out and tried looking again, but still to absolutely no avail. We were convinced that the cache had been "muggled", gone to the great hiding place in the sky. After all (I have been told) that on weekends you actually have to drive around the whole lot looking for a spot. It's busy, busy, busy, and someone had already removed it. We suspect that Wal-mart security had seen enough of us crazy hippies with our crazy looking devices to finally put an end to these festivities. (We say that half jokingly, of course, but at least one geocache downtown has been removed by building security due to new security measures).
The day wasn't a total loss. At least I got new underwear, and (with some prompting from Anne) we got those pictures from Futureshop too.
While driving Anne to the subway station in the morning, our plan for after work was simple, "Go to Tim Horton's, go home, eat pizza, veg on the couch, take a bath, go to bed". Then I added, "Unless Futureshop tells me that the pictures we sent are ready for pickup, in which case, there's two geocaches nearby."
Of course, the pictures we sent to Futureshop were ready in record time. So after work, our plan now involved driving to the Ontario Science Centre while eating addictive veggies chips, going to Wal-mart, and eventually, getting those pictures from Futureshop.
The traffic was heavy around the Ontario Science Centre, but we eventually got there. Then Frank swears, and adds "We have to pay for parking?" Famous last words. Well, into the parking lot we go, then park and walk towards the front entrance. The description said that we didn't have to pay admission to get to this geocache.
And we didn't. It was this giant spike right in front of the front entrance. It was setup to make it look like it had travelled through the concrete and through the barriers around it, supposedly due to plate tectonics. Very informative.
We then headed back to the parking lot, and drove towards the exit, and hey, we didn't have to pay. Anne guesses that it's because we arrived after the Ontario Science Centre after it had closed.
The next geocache is somewhere in the Wal-mart parking lot, away from the store entrance, near a no parking sign. This should be a piece of cake, as how many "no parking" signs are there in a parking lot? Again, famous last words. The signs were all over the parking lot, and even after we got close, we still couldn't find it. It wasn't hidden in the holes in the concrete barriers. It wasn't attached to the guard rail. It was wasn't there. We even went into the store to take a break. We came back out and tried looking again, but still to absolutely no avail. We were convinced that the cache had been "muggled", gone to the great hiding place in the sky. After all (I have been told) that on weekends you actually have to drive around the whole lot looking for a spot. It's busy, busy, busy, and someone had already removed it. We suspect that Wal-mart security had seen enough of us crazy hippies with our crazy looking devices to finally put an end to these festivities. (We say that half jokingly, of course, but at least one geocache downtown has been removed by building security due to new security measures).
The day wasn't a total loss. At least I got new underwear, and (with some prompting from Anne) we got those pictures from Futureshop too.
Labels: geocaching
posted by Frank Yao | 9:05 PM
2 Comments:
Good job Kids. Even though you didn't find it. lol Look at the knowledge you gained. {smiling}
Very Interesting GeoCache experience.... lucky you did not doing last weekend ... the Pride parade offers too many places to look...
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