Event Day

We started the day with breakfast at Whole Foods Market because they had free wifi internet access! We were finally able to post our caches from yesterday! That was the last time we were warm for a while. OK, we were warm while in the car, but we kept getting out to find caches during the day and we froze our ....... off!

It was an interesting day. The sun really was shining but the wind was bitter cold and there were snow flakes in the rain drops. We were thinking the wind was blowing them from somewhere as the sky was blue above us! Strange! We did learn from the weather reports that we are staying in the high wind area! Hopefully, it will be less windy at the event. We are not sure we will be able to stay long if it continues to be as windy and cold.

Naturally we are caching our way to the event. We even met another geocacher at one of his caches. We always enjoy meeting new people when we are caching.

We made a stop at Starbucks when we spotted one! We needed the warmth of the coffee. People wondered about us since we were dressed for the bitter cold and they were in there sweatpants and tee shirts! They were obviously not geocaching.

We arrived at the event and huddled with the masses. Jeremy, the head groundspeak (geocaching.com) dude, was there along with representatives from Garmin. It seems that Garmin is releasing a new GPS receiver that includes a PDA and a special program that works specifically for geocaching. Our roll was to function as guinea pigs to see how it worked. We skipped the demos as we didn’t want to get hooked on this new device. That didn’t keep us from mentioning it several times after the event.


While others were watching or participating in the demos, we walked around the park (mostly desert scape) and found caches. We also found that the wind was less severe as we walked around the small sand dunes and in and out of thorny bushes. We also had an opportunity to talk with other geocachers and learn about their experiences.

After dinner at the Claim Jumper, we ended the day as it started: outside Whole Foods. We were glad to have the internet access to post the caches for the day. It was tough not having access in our room while we were in Las Vegas. I missed the opportunity to post to my blogs and catch up on what everyone else was doing! At least I had my iPhone so I could receive and reply to my email. I realize that I could have done it all from my phone, but I am not a speedy one finger typist! It would have taken a very long time to post all our caches one fingered!