Cache is not at posted coordinates. To get the correct coordinates, you'll have to solve the puzzle below.

May 4^th, 2009 - on just my fourth day ever out geocaching, I ended up finding 10 caches for the day and upped my total number of finds to 29. The last cache of the night had me in cute little park with a neat pagoda and a weird little statue, that I just had to take a picture with.

I moved into my new house in November 2010, and Geocaching took a backseat to many other things in my life. One day when I started to get back into caching I noticed in the statisics page of my profile that the "Nearest Cache to Home" was only 0.189 mi away. That was quite shocking to me, I had never put 2 & 2 together that the park that is litterally in my backyard is the same one I visited in my first week of  Geocaching.

GC1MMJA - Oscar The Grouch Had a short life (Hidden 2/12/2009 - Archived 7/17/2009) but has lots of meaning to me, so I've put this puzzle out in honor of that cache and this great park. And at nearly 15 acres, there is plenty of room for a couple more caches soon to come.

Ansan Sister City

Ansan Sister City Park, 7801 Ducharme Ave., across the street from Johnson Junior High School, has a global heritage. It's named for a city far across the Earth.

Ansan is a city in the Gyeonggi Province of South Korea. It lies south of Seoul, near the Yellow Sea, and is part of the Seoul National Capital Area. According to its website, ansan.iansan.net, the population is 706,000. More than 100,000 residents work in manufacturing. The second-most numerous industry is in the wholesale sector, with about 30,000 employees.

"The park, I didn't even know it had a name," said Joy Burleson, a retired physical education teacher at Johnson Junior High School. "That's where we'd always go look for kids skipping school."

The partnership was entered into in the early 1990s as a hands-across-the-world gesture of goodwill.

"It's just for partner parks; it's not like we're sister cities," said Jace Radke, public information officer for the city of Las Vegas. "It's Sister City Park, but we don't do other stuff with them. The park (aspect) is the bulk of the sister city agreement."

He said the decision was proposed by Lynette Boggs McDonald, a city councilwoman at the time of the park's dedication in 1999.

Originally built in 1994, Ansan Sister City Park includes an 8-foot-tall statue of a popular Korean children's character, a 10-foot Asian pagoda and a playground with a sandbox designed with the traditional yin-yang symbol. In turn, Ansan, South Korea, built a replica of Las Vegas' Angel Park and named it Las Vegas Park.

Ansan Sister City Park sits on approximately 15 acres, has a jogging path, a playground and a fitness course. There are two tennis courts, two picnic areas, a soccer field and a volleyball court. It has bathroom facilities and is a nonreservable park.

"It's another way to get Las Vegas' name out there in the world, in another country," Radke said. "Obviously, that's important to us because we want visitors from all over the world to come to Las Vegas."