Chris & I are itching to do some good geocaching, but it seems that mother nature is making that darn near impossible. The past 2 weeks have been really crappy weather, with the exception of 1 day and we both worked and didn't have the time to go.

Rain, rain..GO AWAY!!!!

I'd rather have snow, because at least I can geocache in snow. I can't geocache in rainy, freezing temps in grass mud. (Well I could, but that'd be highly unpleasant!)

As soon as the weather is geocache'able (yep..totally just made that word up..), and work permits, we'll get out & hit up those caches!! :D

There's a cache that's just over a mile away from us that we've been wanting to do for a few weeks now. It involves climbing a huge tree. This tree, to be exact:

(Pic from listing on Geocaching.com)

Chris is the climber in this family, I don't do heights. ;) lol  But I like the hunt!! Hoping to get this cache checked off of our wish list very, very soon!!

Stay tuned...

I guess everyone has their own "dream" vacation...Vegas, Poconos, Hawaii. But for us, ours is Iowa! Whenever people ask us "Iowa? What's in Iowa?!" and they give us a confused look, we always respond happily with "NOTHING!! And that's the point!" lol For us, a great vacation is a get-the-hell-away trip. There's a lot of land, peace & quiet, and stunning scenic views in Iowa.

So it's only fitting that our dream vacation is just a short 4 hours away. We haven't been there in nearly 2 years (wow..it's been that long already?!), but we're anxious to go!! This year (2012) has been extrememly hard on us, espeically finanically. Frankly, it's been the worst year of my life. It started getting crappy in January, and as of 2 days ago, my streak of horrible luck is still going strong.

We moved from one horrible apartment to another (the lack of management here is unreal), we've had to deal with psycho neighbors, I lost my grandfather to cancer, watched my grandmother sink into sadness that I've never seen & broke my heart (she seems to be A LOT better now though!, thank god!), I was in/out of the hospital for over a month (ER visits for 10-12 hrs at a time, stayed overnight twice) for something they couldn't diagnose at first...turned out that I tore every muscle in my left adominal wall from playing raquetteball and they felt like mini charlie horses in my stomach..very painful.) Oh, and then my car broke down about 5 times in the span of 2 months...shelled out my savings to fix it, and as of 2 days ago, it broke down again. (I'm currently trying to sell it). Sooooo...now we're down to 1 car for at least another year. Oyyy. *head-desk*

Oh, and cap all of that off with taking my dog...my "daughter" (we're pet parents) to the vet ER the other week for a mystery deep gash wound that Chris found in her arm pit. So once again, what little savings I had, was depleted just so that I could pay the vet bill.

Looking to the future...

With 2013 coming up, I just wanna focus on a NEW YEAR with positivity and hope!! :) Chris & I are in dire need of a vacation, and with Iowa being our favorite spot, that's where our dream geocaching vacation spot would be!

And of course, Bella would love it too!! (She loves geocaching!!)



Anyways, we're trying to work as much as we can to save up for the trip in the Spring/Summer. We figure we'll need about $420 for gas, food, & hotel for 2-3 days. If you'd like to throw a couple bucks towards our trip, we'd be so appreciative!!! :)

We'll be taking videos and pictures of journey from start to finish! Worst case scenario, we save up enough money to do an overnight trip somewhere closer to home. Either way, we'll definitley do a getaway trip!

Stay tuned...

Hey guys! Since I made a tutorial about how to get going geocaching with using your smart phone, I figured I'd do a quick post about what's in my geocaching backpack. So I dug everything out of my backpack and took some pics for y'all:

My backpack I got at Spencers at the mall on sale. 

 Contents of my geocaching backpack:
*Batteries
*Flashlights (2 LED, 1 old school, 1 headlight with red or white light option)
* Kleenex
*gloves (you'll want more heavy-duty gloves for thorns & such.)
*hand santizer
*multi-utility tool
*pen
*lighter
*first aid kit
*mini notebook
*treasures we got from inside geocaches we've found (we swap item-for an-item)

 ...and ladies, take note of this....
a red solo cup with the bottom cut out & in a ziplock bag in case nature calls and you're MILES away from any kind of restroom. (My bestie still calls me a genius for this one. lol) Dispose of it when you get home, and pack a new one for just-in-case situations. You'll thank me later.

Geocaching Update:
Chris and I still haven't had the chance to geocaching just yet mainly due to the weather. Last night it thunder-stormed here...in December...in Wisconsin. Weird! And now it's super cold and muddy outside, which are probably the worst conditions to geocache in. I can deal with either, but not both. lol

So that's it for now! I'll update in the next week regardless if we went 'caching or not.

Stay tuned...