Date: Saturday, Feb 29th, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Where: Rudy's Country Store & Bar-B-Q
Address: 3450 Chautauqua Ave, Norman
Directions: 3 miles East of I-35 on Hwy 9
The day McG Mob has dreaded for four years is rapidly approaching. The day that will bring balance to the force. For many geocachers, this day is marked with a nasty goose egg...a donut...a zero. I am one of those cachers! So today is the day we fix that.
NOTE: Not only will attending an event on Leap Day 2020 enable your 366 day calendar grid to be filled, it will also earn you a digital souvenir to your GC profile.
As always, food purchases are not required, so plan to attend whether you'll be eating or not.
FUN FACTS:
- In 1288 Queen Margaret of Scotland at the age of 5 declared that a woman could propose to any man she liked on February 29. “The February 29 proposal” She ruled that men who refused the proposal would need to pay a fine.
- The frog is a symbol associated with February 29.
- Leap Years are the only years where January 1st and December 31st are on different days of the week every other year they're on the same day. So to tell if it's a Leap Year or not is by what day of the week the year starts and ends on.
- If you're on a fixed annual wage you work for free on Leap Day.
- If you are born on February 29 you are known as "leaplings" or "leapers".
- If you are born on February 29 you are not a leap year baby you are a leap DAY baby. If you are born any other day of that year you are a leap YEAR baby.
- The chance of being born on a leap day is one in 1,461.
- About four million people worldwide have a February 29th birthday.