April 1st - Happy April Fools' Day! Mystery Cache
Reviewer Smith: Archiving due to new owner and noted logs.
Reviewer Smith
April 1st - Happy April Fools' Day!
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(micro)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
The cache is not at posted coordinates but the host is obvious once you get there. It could be there, or there, or maybe there… To log this as a find, you must find the host with the log and sign it. This is April Fools’ day so whining and complaining will be tolerated! We want you to find this cache, and we want you to have fun.
April 1st – April Fools’ Day
1. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.843 W 088° 06.871
2. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.843 W 088° 06.884
3. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.834 W 088° 06.884
4. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.827 W 088° 06.884
5. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.820 W 088° 06.884
6. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.813 W 088° 06.884
7. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.813 W 088° 06.871
8. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.820 W 088° 06.871
9. Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.827 W 088° 06.871
10.Maybe the cache is here: N 41° 47.834 W 088° 06.871
According to Wikipedia and other sources, on April 1st:
1. April Fools' Day is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other. So the reason for this cache. You might be able to find this more easily with the hints in the text.
2. In Italy, France and Belgium, children and adults traditionally tack paper fishes on each other's back as a trick and shout "April fish!" in their local languages (pesce d'aprile!, poisson d'avril! and aprilvis! in Italian, French and Dutch, respectively). Such fish feature prominently on many French late 19th to early 20th century April Fools' Day postcards. (Did you know that it Italy they say cinque, and in France they say cinq, and Belguim they may say cinq, Vijf or Fünf?)
3. The earliest recorded association between April 1 and foolishness can be found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392). Many writers suggest that the restoration of January 1 by Pope Gregory XIII as New Year's Day of the Gregorian Calendar in the 16th century was responsible for the creation of the holiday, sometimes questioned for earlier references. (In Latin, the language preferred by Pope Gregory, you'd say quinque.)
4. April 1, 2013 is the day after Easter, where American Poles celebrate “Dyngus Day.” South Bend, IN and Buffalo, NY have large Polish populations, putting an American twist on the traditional Polish holiday, known as Smigus Dyngus. I've celebrated Dyngus Day since I was five. Wet Easter Monday (Dyngus Day) was traditionally the day boys tried to drench girls with squirt guns, buckets of water, and much more. The girls got their chances for revenge the following day. Now the Monday is usually celebrated by everyone drenching or sprinkling each other. According to Rev. Krysa, Dyngus Day is a commemoration of the birth of Christianity in Poland (966 A.D.) in which Holy Baptism was administered to Prince Mieszko on Easter Monday, uniting all of Poland under the banner of Christianity. The Dyngus custom is also reminiscent of the mass Baptisms that took place in the Lithuania after the marriage of Polish Queen Jadwiga and Lithuanian Duke Jagiello. (In Poland they say Pięć and in Lithuania, they'd say penki.)
5. Smigus Dyngus (shming-oos-ding-oos) This term now refers to the Easter Monday drenching custom, although once signified a kind of house-to-house Easter trick or treating that has survived only in a few rural areas. The merrymakers often pulled along a special cart with a live or wooden rooster and received treats and drinks from the households they visited. American Polonian descendants of the 1890s-1930s immigration often celebrate Dyngus Day with a polka dance, pierogies and sausage.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
CBYRF pryroengr Qlathf Qnl.
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures