My good friend Phil and I spent the last week geocaching all over the the twin cities area. The first day we hit up 5 in north Saint Paul and then another 3 in Forest Lake. Phil found most of them while I played with the gps, I found one on a playground hidden in one of those "animals on a spring" type deals.
The next day we started in Forest Lake with a long trek to one at Lamprey's Pass and then ended up in Lino Lakes in a Kohl's parking lot and couldn't find the cache for the life of us. We moved on to the Walmart area on Lexington and 35W, we easily found one there, but there was one by Walgreens we couldn't get to because there were too many people sitting around eating toxic fast food. I guess in the world of geocaching those folks are called "muggles" which I guess is from harry potter. We found a cache right down the street from there by the Minnesota school of business shortly after. We found one more in a park off of Radisson and couldn't find one near a school off of county road I. So we moved on to county road H where we parked at a park and ride. It seemed like the cache was nearby a drainage ditch we were parked by and since it is February we figured it would be safe to walk on. Well it was for the most part, but when we got near a bridge we noticed the water was open under the bridge and flowing, and that the cache we were hunting was on the other side of the bridge full of stopped traffic. Right when I realized this I heard Phil scream and I turned to see his left leg submerged through the ice, and not even a second later did I notice the sweet smell of sewage.
Needless to say that was the end of our caching for the day, but after I was home and settled I recieved a call from Phil and he was looking for a knife he had with him earlier. This was a very big and very cool knife and Phil was very attached to this knife, so we ended up driving back to county road H to look for the knife. We ended up finding it on the ice right next to the spot where Phil fell in the sewage, using a stick we retrieved it. After that we figured we would try to get the cache we were looking for when he fell, so we crossed the street and searched and searched. Couldn't find it, but when we were walking back to the vehicle the police found us, harrassed us for IDs and left us alone once we told them that we were geocaching. They had obviously heard of the "sport" before because they didn't give us much crap after that.
The next couple of days we went to Minneapolis and snagged a few more to finish the week out. For more info on geocaching go to geocaching.com
