GC18HKR Chinese Year of the Rat.....American Style (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Geo Grump AKA Seeker Son, The Seegert Seekers

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Hidden : Saturday, July 12, 2008

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Chinese Year of the Rat...American Style
Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Please click HERE to get to our detailed event web page.

Well a whole year has gone bye...WOW! 2008 is the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Rat, and once again we want to celebrate this American-style with our two favorite things...Barbeque and Geocaching!! Last year was such a huge success it's going to be hard to beat :-D But we're going to give it a shot. We had almost 100 folks show up last year, nearly filling our pavilion. We also had a lot of non-cachers in the park stop in and learn about our sport which was just plain cool :-D As the scene for our event this year we've rented the Plymouth Riverside Park pavilion again because we really want to showcase the EN Hines Drive park system.

The pavilion is situated right along a lazy bend of the Middle Rouge River in the northeastern 1/2 of the park. With the tall oaks and other tree's providing shade and a large shelter just in-case, we should be quite comfortable rain or shine. The pavilion is also very close to bathrooms and a playscape. We're hoping to showcase Hines Drive park with 42 active caches hidden along it's winding 18 miles. Like last year we rented the pavilion for the whole day and we'll be there early to clean & setup - and of course late to clean up - so everyone is welcome pretty much from sun-up to sun-down. Please feel free to make us your "base of operations" as you cache in Hines Drive throughout the day. Please use the bookmark on this page to see all of the caches already set on Hines Drive, and remember there'll be several new ones on the day of the event.

Also, while we hope everyone who wants to cache will take advantage of the Hines Drive bonanza, we'd also love to have folks just come hang out with us for the day and just visit with friends from all over and have something good to eat. We're doing this to meet new friends and see past acquintences too. Our hope is that this is just one big summer geo-family gathering.

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We're planning a potluck meal. Last year's fresh smoked pulled pork was a big hit and we'll be BBQ-ing something equally as yummy this year too! (But don't worry we're not gonna have Rat-on-a-stick or anything LOL) We'll have all the usual stuff going on, an FTF raffle for new caches, a close-by cache course for the kids, and many other fun activities. We have a few things set aside already for a prize table, please feel free to donate to it if you'd like. Please let us know how many children will attend, we can have a separate table for them with more age-appropriate items. There is a horseshoe pit nearby, we'll have our ladder golf game there, and there is room for soccer balls and such, and of course there's the very nearby playscape. Our geocoin for this event is already in the works, and we'll show details as soon as we finalize things.

More details on the food & activity schedule are available!

Please click HERE to get to our detailed event web page.

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