I have been wanting to join in with the fabulous Word Of the Week run by Jocelyn who writes at The Reading Residence, for ages but have not been organised enough!
But this week I am and my word of the week has been `Discover’!
It is no secret that we like a bit of geocaching.
In my opinion, it is good healthy fun for all the family.
However, our eldest has never enjoyed the delights with us before. She is usually at work, uni or nursing a hangover, whenever we go.
On Sunday, she advised that she would be free to come out with us for the day and asked what would we be doing.
When we decided on geocaching, her face remained unchanged and she asked would food be involved. Knowledge of a picnic and ice cream at the end secured her participation.
So you see there were no expectations.
She imagined she would be walking the dog with food being an added bonus.
So off we set, suitably attired for a rummage through brambles.
Then this happened!
The youngest discovered the first cache on our list.
She filled in the log and the eldest discovered:
The caches are there.
The clues are accurate.
The logs revealed that tons of people do it.
It is really exciting!
When it came to locating the next one, she was in the lead.
There was a water trough involved and she was straight in.
I had to remind her that the youngest needed to look too and to wait her turn to sign the log ha!
She was delighted by the whole thing and was talking about how she could incorporate into her lesson plans – she is studying primary teaching!
This is a picture of them as they rushed to the next cache, they are both bouncing along, even the dog is bewildered. 
They were well away, racing to their next discovery!
Then I discovered this view of the beach that I have never seen before.
It was beautiful!
This is the added joy of geocaching for me, I always see something I would have missed.
Have a lovely day!
Into The Glade! 
Hello there, looks like you all had a lot of fun! I am yet to try Geocaching, I’m linking up with you via #WordoftheWeek for the first time too. I look forward to connecting with you over on the linky, much love from Hookin’ Is Where The Heart Is – http://wp.me/p6xThh-34
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Hello thank you for popping by, it was a lot of fun and I strongly recommend geocaching! Thanks again x
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Always good to convert a Muggle to the magic of caching – especially if the Muggle is one of your own! She could get a trackable for lessons – I did that and we watched its progress in class with the children then used it as a basis for writing stories about its adventures… until it went AWOL at least 😦
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Oh no! It’s awful when they are not found, it nearly put us off at the beginning. Oh what a great idea, I will pass it on. Ha! Yes I did congratulate myself on one less muggle in the world ha! Thanks lovely xx
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Love this post and especially the excitement of your eldest bless her. Definitely still got to find time to have a go at this geocaching – looks so much fun. Just need some nice weather!!
Sammy xxx
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Oh you must Master B would love it, it also acts as a great dog walk. It is slightly addictive though ha! Thanks Sammy xx
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Love seeing their excitement! This is something that I keep saying we must try, but we’ve yet to get around to it. I fear it would soon be come addictive! Thanks so much for joining in and sharing with #WotW x
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It is so addictive, honestly we can’t even nip out for milk without checking if anything new has been added. Thank you for hosting & coming up with such a great idea xx
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What a wonderful day! It sounds like everyone had a great time 🙂 x
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They did and the rest of the week has been taken up with deciding where to go this weekend. Thank you x
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It’s definitely good, healthy fun – and if there’s a picnic involved that makes it all the better! Looks like fun 🙂 #wotw
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There was a picnic ha! I love it, it gets everyone out too. Thank you x
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What a lovely post. I would love to try geo caching, it looks so interesting and obviously engages the kids too!
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Children of all ages seem to love it, I convinced my friend with an 8 & 5 year old to give it a try and they loved it too. Thank you x
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Such a lovely post. We’re yet to try Geocaching but I’ve heard – and seen – so many great things about it that it’s climbing higher and higher up my list!
Great #WoTW
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Thank you! Oh go on give it ago although beware that it can be slightly addictive ha! X
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I’m glad your oldest daughter learned that geocaching is fun! Years before we observed a lot of people doing it, as where I worked was a geochache destination, and it did look like a great family fun outing!
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It is fab! Oh that’s interesting, a chap did come out of his house to help us once because he had been watching ha! Thanks Marie x
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Fabulous!!!! How great that you are all now enjoying this! Even Jack! xx
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Oh yes it all started as a way to get the youngest out with Jack! Thanks Amy x
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We love geocaching but its been awhile since we last looked for one. Now I suddenly miss doing it! #wotw
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It is great isn’t it?!? Thank you x
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I hold my hand up and say I have never heard of it and have no idea what is involved but it looks like tremendous fun!
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It is great fun! Thank you Karen x
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Great post! Totally how I was when my friend introduced me to caching. Love that your take your dog!
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Thank you – oh yes he loves it too ha! X
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I love geocaching it’s such a fun family activity it always keeps the weekends busy
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It does and keeps everyone out if trouble ha! X
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My Sister keeps mentioning this to me and I keep thinking that I must try it – looks amazing fun! Great photo’s 🙂 xx
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Thanks Jess, it is great, you must give it a try x
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Sounds like this was just what your girls needed even though they didn’t know it! I hope they got their picnic and ice cream reward at the end. A lovely afternoon and great to see them out enjoying the fresh air. Thank you for joining me for Country Kids.
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It was lovely to get and about. Thank you Fiona and for hosting xx
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