Come celebrate this special Leap Day 2024 with our geofamily! gkhill is co-hosting with us!
Where: iHOP - 2420 Hwy 6 and 50 in Grand Junction, Colorado
When: Thursday, February 29, 2024
Time: 8:00am - 9:30am
No Purchase required. Restaurant seating is not guaranteed and is on a first come, first serve basis.
All are welcome!
Please post your 'will attend' so we have an idea on numbers for the event and make sure that the restaurant is appropriately staffed.
We will gather to geo chat, meet old and new geo friends and exchange trackables.
This is a rare chance to fill in February 29th with a find on your calender.
Draw for a chance to receive a special geocaching souvenir commemorating the day.
10 Fun Facts about Leap Year
- Without leap day, our calendar would be off by about 24 days every century, or every 100 years! Leap year is a "Calendar Correction".
- The first leap year was introduced in 46 BCE by Julius Caesar of Rome.
- People born on a Leap Day are sometimes called leaplings.
- More than 4 million people around the world are leaplings.
- On non-leap years, some leaplings choose to celebrate their birthdays a day early on February 28, while others choose to celebrate a day later on March 1. Today, we will be celebrating a Leap Year Birthday!!! How would you like to be 20 years old TWICE!?!
- There is an international club for leaplings! The Honor Society of Leap Year Babies has over 10,000 members worldwide.
- Some cultures that use a lunar calendar – a calendar that is based on the moon’s movement - add a whole leap month every three years.
- Most Presidential Elections (except for those years marking the end of a century (i.e. multiples of 100) which are only leap years if also divisible by 400 occur on Leap Years. As a result, 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years, but 1800, 1900, and 2100 are not. Another popular world event that occurs on leap years are the Summer Olympic Games.
- Since 2024 is a leap year, the next leap year will be in 2028. That means the next leap day is 1,461 days away!
- There are 525,600 minutes in a typical calendar year. On leap years, there are 527,040 minutes. What will you do with the extra 1,440 minutes this leap year?