The container is a green amo container. There is a log book and pen and enough room for items to be traded. We have chosen this spot for our first cache as we are a couple team. It is said that those that play together, stay together. My boyfriend and I started dating almost a year ago. we were both recovering from terrible marriages/divorces and getting back into the dating game. we first met in downtown paducah at the water front. we walked and talked for hours. We started dating shortly thereafter. I was very excited to learn that he had a love for mother nature as much as myself. he asked me if I had ever been geocaching. What in the name of mother nature was this!! So he downloaded the app on my phone. the catfish cache was our first find. It was cold, raining and late and i thought for sure we were going to get arrested, but that is why we have friends with bail money. We went on to continue caching and one cold day yet again we were out caching and hiking..I was covererd in dirt as i slid down a huge hill on my butt. he told me to choose A or B so I chose B and into the patti's parking lot he drove. it was christmas season and the sight took my breath away. We were seated and everyone in there was dressed to the 9's. i had dirt and leaves in my hair..What a sight!! It was one of the best days and nights we have ever had. We still continue to cache on our days off. It has brought us closer together as friends and lovers!!
Here is a little history for you on Patti's:
Patti’s 1880’s Settlement? But it’s always been Patti’s 1880’s Restaurant! Well, it was..It still is. Only today there’s so much more. In 1975, mom and dad stopped in Grand Rivers and fell in love with the little town and shared a love for the Land Between the Lakes area.
In 1977, Dad, Mom, Chip and his life partner, Michael Lee, started Hamburger Patti’s Ice Cream Parlor. The restaurant was a block building that was part of a 6-unit motel.
With 20 seats, the motel units quickly gave way to become dining rooms. The upstairs room and uni-sex lavatory (with my treasured cast-iron, footed bathtub and Indian Joe) was the Tullar’s personal living room and bath. Patti’s 1880’s Restaurant was on it’s way.
Great food and great presentation at great prices is Patti’s claim to success, but as Chip (the oldest), always said, “There has to be more to create a truly memorable impression.”
Bill soon got tired of being called Mr. Patti, so the boys built him a restaurant of his own in 1990. Mr. Bill’s was designed for bus tours in mind, with entertainment. Bill’s had Honky Tonk piano players, and four saloon girls for the hostess and servers.
Bill’s had a down home menu that fit right in. But Patti’s continued to grow, and needed more room so Mr. Bill’s lost out and became part of Patti’s 1880’s Restaurant. Today Mr. Bill’s has the same food, same servers – everything is the same except for the room size.
Sorry we had to Remove the camera! It kept being removed!