Memorial Day Weekend

[derekl_1963]

A very busy weekend! We went caching (Brenda and I) on Saturday and had so much fun we abandoned our plans for Sunday (furniture shopping boring!) and headed back out and cached some more with Chuck tagging along. All that walking and all those miles under our butts were quite tiring, so even though the pool was still a little green we warmed it up and got in anyhow. Monday Brenda had to work, so Chuck and I headed out and grabbed a couple more just to make it three days out of three and then back home to grill up some burgers. (Can't not grill on Memorial Day weekend!)

In the course of our travels we stopped at McDonald's and Brenda tried their new Mocha and pronounced it 'gross and disgusting, tasting like cheap hot chocolate with a little coffee flavor'.

We searched out part of a series of caches that take you to various historical cemeteries in Kitsap County, some abandoned or mostly so, and some still in use.



Ashes to ashes - a headstone in a cemetery near Manchester. Though none were so decorated in this particular cemetery (possibly because we were there so early), it was quite moving to see many graves decorated with veterans flags for the Memorial Day weekend.

These two were taken near a cache based on the Veterans memorial in Manchester - they do a poor job of showing just how glorious the day was:





Brenda's favorite picture of the weekend, two deer peacefully grazing on the roadside near Olalla.



The final tally was sixteen finds, several Did Not Find, one that we didn't find that turned out to be missing, and a handful or so that we waved off for one reason or another. (No safe parking, too many onlookers, etc...)

Challenge updates:

Kitsap County Challenge:



We cleared seven map squares (highlighted in red) this weekend. We tried three of the four in the Southwest corner but ended up with a solid string of Did Not Finds. (Hey, if it were easy what would be the point?) Map 680, in the bottom Southwest corner, will require a two mile hike to get to the nearest cache - and we are so badly out of shape we aren't ready to try that. Brenda and I are working on fixing that. (Being out of shape.)

Alphabet Soup Challenge:

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We cleared a total of nine letters (highlighted in red) over the course the weekend... Ten more to go.