*Let It Snow * Let It Snow * Let It
Snow *
Saturday, January 24,
2009
* Family Friendly * Meet and Greet
Opportunity *
MORNING MEET AND GREET EVENT - 8:00 AM – 10:00
AM
This year’s MORNING Meet and Greet opportunity will take place
during the JANBOREE PANCAKE BREAKFAST. The coordinates given above
are for the Waukesha Schuetze Recreation Center located along the
Fox River. This is the hub of the JanBoree events this morning.
There is a parking lot although it will see a lot of traffic this
morning.
As you enter the building, turn to the right, we will be in
the room at the end of the hallway. We will not be set up in the
main room with the Pancake breakfast but you are welcome to
purchase your meal and bring in to our room. (Meal purchases are
not required.)
Come meet other Geocachers, share your geocaching stories, trade
those travel bugs and share your special geocoins here! Geocoin
trades are also welcome. If you do not like winter geocaching, you
are most welcome to come and say hello! The Schuetze Recreation
Center is wheelchair accessible, weather permitting.
The Pancake Breakfast includes all the pancakes you can eat.
Seconds available for other amenities at a nominal price. Save 50¢
a ticket by buying them in advance at the Waukesha Parks,
Recreation and Forestry Department office. All tickets are
non-refundable however. Adults (12 – 64): $5 ($4.50 in advance),
Seniors (65+): $4 ($3.50 in advance), Children (under 12): $3.50
($3.00 in advance), Children under 1 eat free!
GEOCACHING INTRO PRESENTATION
9:00 AM At the request of our event sponsors, AuntieNae will be
doing a short Introduction to Geocaching presentation. If you are
new to geocaching, she will give you pointers on how you can join
us for part of the day.
GEOCACHES HIDDEN FOR THIS EVENT
We recognize there are folks that do not search for temporary
caches. We recognize there are those that do. However, due to the
efforts we put into hiding the temporary caches for this event, we
do allow you to log them here on the event page if you would like.
TRACK ONE: DOWNTOWN Our event sponsors have hidden a
series of 6 temporary caches
(TREASURE HUNTERS) (as of January 23) through the downtown area.
These will only be available on Saturday between the hours of 10
AM – 3 PM. (Please note, there will be one only available until 12
noon). Snow or cold, you and your family will enjoy these kid
friendly hides. Park your car at any of the downtown streets or
parking lots and walk to this series of caches and/ or use the free
trolley service. (Free trolley runs from 9AM-3PM.) Find them, log
them, find them, do not log them .. whatever, just have fun!
SPECIAL CACHE
An extra special temp cache, thank you to twoworldly, will be
hidden at the local indoor waterpark hotel. Each family that signs
in will receive 1 free day admission to the waterpark. See
http://www.janboree.org/event12.html for further details. Bring
your swim suit, perhaps after participating outdoors all day you
will want to go indoors for the evening?
TRACK TWO: AROUND TOWN Around Waukesha. AuntieNae has
planned a series of 11 HISTORICAL
VIRTUAL caches. They are all "winter friendly", are all new for
2009, and will introduce you and your family to some of the
historical and more unique things in Waukesha. Special thanks to
"The Tapps Sr & Jr" for assisting with marking coordinates and
"GR8 Eyes" for assisting with some of the historical research. Find
them, log them, find them, do not log them .. whatever, just have
fun!
REGULAR CACHES Around Waukesha, there are plenty of
geocaches - be sure to download files prior to coming! We will NOT
have this data available for download. Be sure to check out the 2
new EarthCaches recently created.
BRING YOUR CAMERA We will have a locationless cache to
make things fun!
COORDINATE DOWNLOADS
Please be sure to THANK our “crack
crew” of ”Coordinate Downloading Volunteers:”
Jeremy, Gr8 Eyes, Lego Lover and
notmuch who are once again volunteering to assist us
with downloading the event coordinates to your GPSr's from
8:00-9:30 AM. Limited downloads MAY be available at Mia's during
our afternoon meet and greet.
If you have not found the many geocaches in the Waukesha area,
you will want to load these caches in your GPSr prior to coming as
we will not be offering those in download or handout format.
AFTERNOON MEET AND GREET EVENT - 12:00 noon until 3:00
PM
Pizza anyone? MIA's Restaurant (N 43 00.639 W 88 13.961) will host
our afternoon meet and greet! A Pizza lunch special - is being
offered to allow for a quicker lunch experience. price $3.50 per
"slice" which will be approximatly 1/4 of a pizza - same price as
2008!! They will have 5 different types of pizza to choose
from.(Insiders Tip: The garlic bread is AWESOME.)
Come meet other Geocachers, share your geocaching stories, trade
those travel bugs and share your special geocoins here! Geocoin
trades are also welcome. If you do not like winter geocaching, you
are most welcome to come and say hello! Meal purchase is not a
requirement to attend.
REGISTRATION WILL NOT CLOSE. We do ask that
if you are planning to come or might be, that you post a will
attend or a note, with your number of adults and children a)
MORNING MEET and GREET -letting us know if you plan to stay so we
have enough seats, b) can have enough handouts prepared for each
group and c)AFTERNOON MEET AND GREET - so we can give MIA's a head
count for lunch preparation purposes.
All participants will need to complete and turn in a
registration form at sign in. A linky is included here to the
Registration Form in Word format. Forms will also be available at
check in. Click
Here to download the form
*Special thank you to the Wisconsin Geocaching Association
for loaning us the cables to download to most GPSr's.
WEATHER CANCEL??
Are we geocachers or what? Will we cancel for snow? This event will
be held snow or no snow. The first year this event was held we
experienced a major snowstorm the morning of. It just adds to the
fun!
If we can be of further assistance, please just email!
The Waukesha Winter JanBoree Geocaching is
being planned by: The Tapps/ Brian Tapp and AuntieNae/ Renee
Vanselow-Tapp in conjunction with Sue Harter, Recreation Supervisor
for the City of Waukesha Parks, Recreation and Forestry
Department.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS , other upcoming events
we are planning, watch for the individual event pages to be listed
as the dates get closer:
2009 Waukesha .. CITO event .. Saturday, April
18
Geocaching 101 Class .. Saturday, May
2