This past weekend we attended the Natinal Trails Day CITO Event hosted by lake Ouachita State park. I honestly didn't expect to have as much fun as we did. It was just a quick cleanup and then I figured my family and I would hike some trails, grab some caches, and then go swimming finally settling down at our campsite for our favorite dinner: hot dogs and s'mores!
What a surprise that event turned out to be. There wasn't a large turnout but everyone that did had an incredible time! Our host for the event was park interpreter Susan. She did a marvelous job organizing the cleanup and keeping a bunch of easily distracted, sweaty geocachers on task. Of course after all the trash was collected we settled down to a wonderful lunch provided by the park. Afterwards, she even took us out on a enormous tour boat to grab some caches. How cool was that!
Susan's just starting out geocaching and is working on hosting another event this fall at the park. This one will be a campout also. Oh yeah! Our favorite!
We made some new friends over the weekend also. It was the husband and wife caching team of QuartzCachers. I'd spoken to Bruce briefly at other events but had never had the chance until this one to hang out and just chat. Both our families hit it off. Especially the kids! We're going to hook up in Hot Springs to do the Tah-Ne-Co earthcache located in Hot Springs National Park. It will take the better part of a day to do it and ging along with friends just promises for a great day.
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