Groundspeak HQ 7-23-2010

We were in the neighborhood today for the Girls Rock Extravaganza at the Bottom Lounge on Lake, where two of our grandkids performed. Amanda played drums in their band named Five Seconds Of Fame. Lorena's band was called Telly, and she played base guitar and sang.
After the show Jeanne and I dropped by at this venue and I signed the playbill... another great performance by Panther in the Den!

I started getting a string of e-mails around 11:00 of new caches being published, so I started checking them for location. Too far....too far....too far. Then I checked one more...NOT too far, in fact we go there often. FTF possibility? Sure, just depends on where certain hounds are situated at the moment. Jeanne had just gotten home with the car, and agreed to get back in and go for a ride. No train delays, and soon we were driving up to GZ. Half expecting to run into a friend or two, we were the only ones there. I grabbed the cache and went inside the car to log it. The condition of the cute little logbook was an encouraging sign, and my nimble fingered spouse opened it....pristine!
😎 FTF just before 11:30 AM. 😎 Only being able to handle one thought at a time (and for the last half hour it was geocaching) I drew a blank on my favorite band. Maybe it's because I don't have a "favorite" band. So I just jotted down the first few that came to my mind. One of them was BS&T. (Now how could I have forgotten PP&M?) The choices may reveal my age, but I still think we had the best music of all. As for the most wonderful time of the year, I would probably have to disagree. I only hope the first week of August is better than the first week of July. Thanks Harleys Mom, for the fun morning. And my mother-in-law thanks you because she got an unexpected visit as soon as we finished here.

I already did this multi last November with Jeanne, but today came out with sunnysidesouth, maddfinder and his newbie friend to walk along with them on their quest of the cache. The "tour" of the grounds is pleasant in any season. We also enjoyed the First Division Museum, and the boys climbed up and down on every tank.

It's 60 miles to Chicago, we've got a quarter tank of gas, half a bag of potato chips, it's our wedding anniversary, it's getting dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses. 😎

We could sure use $200 right now, but we did not pass GO. We went straight to this cache. (OK, maybe I went around in a few circles with my GPS first, and we played around a little bit next to GZ first) but this was a great place to get off the highway after driving in from Springfield, and about to cruise Rte 66 and the Red Carpet Corridor all the way to Wilmington.

We searched a bit until Don read a recent log on his phone, then found it after we came to the realization it might not be a typical hide . The logsheet was a soaking wet mass of pulp. I cleaned out the container and put a new logsheet in, after signing it.