North Halton
GeoPoker & Pub Grub 
This is an all day event planned for North Halton. You can start
the day with some local geocaching and sign up for a Norval
geopoker run. Afterwards you are welcome to join us for a get
together at a yummy pub to discuss geocaching. The posted
coordinates are for the pub, the poker coordinates are listed
below.
So What's going on? Nothing
more than your friendly geocachers getting together for a bite to
eat and a few ge
obeers. I have really secured the
back half at Smitty's
Restaurant as well as the attached Josh's Pub where you are welcome
to visit and be as noisy and geeky as you want. They have
a family menu as well as
a standard pub menu,with a large assortment of pub drafts available
for your tasting pleasure. Go ahead and bring your hunger and
thirst. Bring all of your electronics and travel bugs for trading.
See you there.
Pub Grub and Geobeers! Meet
at Josh's Pub attached to Smitty's Family Restaurant located at 265
Guelph Street in Georgetown. Plenty of 
parking in the back.
Who Just
about anybody
When Saturday
Oct. 29th 1700hrs.(5pm)
Where Josh's
Pub behind Smitty's Family Restaurant
What should I bring? If you
played the poker tour today then bring your cards. You should bring
your appetite and thirst. Pack up all your new geocaching stuff to
show off. Bring bugs and coins for trade. Bring your Grandma and
friends, bring your brother, he already thinks your nuts. BFL's and
FRS' are a must for some local night caching.
Prizes and stuff! I am in
the process of finding a few donations for a prize table. There
will be prizes for the best poker 
hands and maybe a draw or
two. Keep your eyes open for a new Norval cache. There
are eighty geocaches located within ten kilometers of the
pub.
A chance to
play some seven card
stud geocache
style.
What is a poker run? A poker
run is nothing more than an event set up for people with interests
such as boating or motorcycling who combine their sport with
playing poker. Some poker runs involve week long rallies with
million dollar 
boats crossing a continent for big
money and prizes. All poker runs include neat destinations where
cards are collected at checkpoints. Then there is usually a meeting
destination where prizes are passed out and everyone eats, drinks
and generally has a good time. Living in the real world we are
resolved to walking about the village of Norval with a few bucks in
geeky electronics hoping to win some Tupperware. Afterwards all can
get together for a geobeer.
What's the deal? Saturday
October 29th all day. You can park at the ball diamond at
43º38.803N,
079º51.844W. I will set 
up a registration table between
9am and 4pm. I will pass out your registration package with
the first of seven cards, a set of rules and the locations of the
next six cards. This is not a timed event so you will have all day
to walk all over Norval twice and collect your playing cards
(should take about an hour or two). If you want to pick up your
geobuddies registration package that is fine. Everyone can
play.
Registration at the Willow Park Ecology Center Pavilion located
at 43º38.856N,
079º51.950W.
What do I have to do? Just
sign up and then show up. The six geocaches will contain sealed
marked envelopes. Everything will be shuffled and dealt randomly.
You will be given all instructions in your geo poker registration
package along with a phone a friend hotline number to call if you
need help.
What is seven card stud?
Seven card stud is a poker game played with two cards dealt facing
down four cards up and a seventh card dealt down. It has always
been a favorite poker night game although it is easy to run out of
cards in a hurry. For our game we will use a deck of fifty two
cards for every seven people playing. The idea is to make the best
poker hand...OK...got it? More on the rules later.
Huh? Where's Norval? Bring
your Timmy's and bring some H2O. You will be walking all over the
village. Please be extra careful if crossing the streets and the
moving water. Please make some time to stay and enjoy the autumn in
Norval. You can visit the Lucy Maude Montgomery garden with the
famous analemmatic clock (one of seven in North America). You
will be spending some time in the
Willow Park Ecology Centre. This is a great park with butterfly
garden and reptile hibernacula.
More on the Ecology Centre is right here.
What part do I remember?
Sign up here on the site. Let me know if you want to play geopoker
and what time you may show up. Pick up your players package at the
times listed. Go for a walk and have fun. Meet later for prizes and
geobeers! Or just show up at the posted coordinates for grub
and good time.
Those who attended:
gconnorhike
hawkeye hunt
speedranger
cached away
Olar
BullShipper
Deirdre’s
Explorers
jeff-trex
fizbot
G21
Shopaholics
jollywolly
734carver
TOMTEC
Clamdiggers
Flick
Kitten on the
hunt
chris-mouse
DelMarNorth
Tylor2100
Keith
Watson
jtee
capjap
Rogue_monkey
filmclips dr.clean
ve3tks
Buttons and Beaux
JWID
Micd
Amazon
Annie
Algonquin Bound
ElectroQTed
northernpenguin
owlnebula
Couparangus
dex4
Smiles’R’Us
Nozzletime
saf47
Luc &
Sweety
Rideau Rangers
Dreidel
Boy
The Blue Quasar
wannabetts?
DNStephens
YongeCachers
peng1 + piggybabymcpig
logger&trail
Boxer Crew
steve,Irene&DOG
Big&LittleZee
res2100
Outdoors Nut
Ellesche
Canadian&kiwi
charliezulu
Suzie Homemaker
Cedar Grove
Seekers
puddlemaster
1701eh
Treasuretravellers
Dave +
Jen