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FP Series #828 - Gloria Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

drives: I don't know. I write this stuff in English, yet it is completely ignored. I could just delete crappy log notes, but that seems a bit extreme. However, it still is aggravating to know that cachers today could give a %$&* less how much time, effort and money it takes to have caches for them to find.

Even though Groundspeak doesn't consider us volunteers (and also could give a %$&* less), imagine how the game will be after we quit spending our time and money hiding these caches just for you to find because you can't take 1 minute to at least write a decent log.

The game has evolved to where hiding caches is no longer fun.

Bye Felicia

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Hidden : 2/20/2015
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Eight Hundred TwentyEighth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Gloria


Gloria is a hippopotamus from Madagascar who resided in the Central Park Zoo as an attraction. She has gray skin, a snout, black fingers, and a short tail (the exact description of what you may expect to see back here in this parking lot). She acts as the older sister to the gang, often putting her foot down when the boys start to lose control. Gloria expresses a desire to join in the zoo breeding program, in the hopes of finding a boyfriend.

At his birthday party, Marty, a plains zebra, announced his wish upon blowing out the candles on his cake: to go to the wild. He escapes the Central Park Zoo, where he had lived for the past ten years, and makes a dash for the wild. His friends, Alex the Lion, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippopotamus, flag him down, but as they are about to take him back to the zoo, police officers and animal control officers appear in all directions, tranquilize the animals, and send them on a ship to a wildlife preserve in Kenya. The penguins take over the ship and the four friends are washed up on the shores of Madagascar.

When the animals crash land in Africa, she attracts the attention of a hippo named Moto Moto. Though she thinks he is the ideal boyfriend at first, she realizes that he only loves her for her large, "plumpy" body, where as Melman loves her for who she is. Realizing that she loves Melman back, she convinces him not to sacrifice himself into the volcano and Gloria grabs him by the horn and says, "It's crazy to think that I had to go half way around the world to find the perfect guy was right next door...".

When it's not a valet parking lot, you can walk around to the cache. When it is, well, good luck. It is possible to drive right up to it though. It does get busy around here.

So finding a parking space, or negotiating this alley, was like pulling teeth. Therefore, the container is a small plastic bottle that once held a tooth implant. Chomp on that for a while...

This cache was placed in conjunction with the drives/TeamOxford annual breakfast event Lazy Days of Winter.


GPSr Accuracy 6.5'
Avoid the use of acronym only logs and cut 'n paste logs. You must sign the log to claim the find. No exceptions, no excuses. Blank logs may be deleted without notice.

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