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What a blast this was!!! We took our granddaughters with us and we had more fun. We got our feet good and wet, but that was OK--we needed to cool off. The girls actually got to the cache first and logged their find while we were struggling with all the tears! We took lots of pictures and they will remember this adventure for some time.
The full explanation: to get to this geocache we had to wade down the middle of the creek. The four of us were a little skeptical, but what the hey! We took our first tentative steps and then waded in the creek for about 100 feet. It was mostly shallow but we had a couple of deeper spots with faster moving water. The girls had their flip flops on and I had my water sandles. Grandpa wore an old pair of tennis shoes. We were a little unsteady on our feet, but we didn't have any mishaps until after we had found and replaced the cache. Katelynn was returning to the water when her feet slipped out and she went down on her bottom in the mud. Fortunately, she wasn't in the creek, but she was pretty close.
We laughed all the way to lunch! Do you think their friends will believe that their grandparents took them wading in a creek to find a little first aid box just so they could sign their name? Do you think their parents will ever let them visit again?
We hope so!
Besides wading in the creek, we walked over the American River on the Rainbow Bridge in Folsom and found a rattlesnake skin (fortunately not connected to the snake). When we got home, Grandpa tried to work on his computer, but his eyelids just couldn't handle it. Click on the picture and check out the other pictures we took today, plus the picture of a sleeping Grandpa working on his computer.
