Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas Eve 2011

Adoring Adelyn

Very proud grandma Mary and Adelyn

Part of the gathering group

Grandma, Grandpa and their four great grand children

Proud grandparents with Adelyn

Proud parents

Opening presents

Alan and Ava 

Adelyn resting peacefully during the chaos






Four generations

Who me?

Oh!

I'm on the nice list

December 24th - Geocaching

Geocache in Minden by the city pool

Geocache hidden under a reflector

Geocache on a MMR.
(minimum maintenance road)

Nice scenic MMR

Geocache under the center line of the highway

Glad it was dry today

World challenge.
"Stand on a border"

The worst MMR we have been on.
We turned around and went back

Geocache in a plastic egg located in a broken
corner post of the Mennonite cemetery
Mary's favorite of the day


Geocache on the other side of the Blue River
Crystal Lake park north of Ayr
Jerry's favorite of the day

Mary's large diamond ring from a geocache at Crystal Lake

Lots of critters in this cache

Crystal Lake is no longer state run
The village of Ayr is maintaining it and doing a better job

Geocache at the entrance


Unique geocache container at Idlewilde Acres
southwest of Hastings

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Geocaching - December 17, 2011

45 degrees in December
So we took the day off and went
geocaching!
Nice park and hike trail at Axtell





Found the cache.  Now how do I get it out?

Cache in Axtell that was full of kid's treasures.

Impressive fence around a cemetery in Keene.

Found it!


Park in Holdrege

Geocache at the top of the falls

Mary couldn't resist playing the drums at the park

Prairie bronze sculpture in Holdrege

Lots of ducks, geese and a turkey at the park lake



The first stop to complete an Earth Cache north of
Funk, Nebraska.



A viewing blind at the Funk Lagoon waterfowl production area

Cute idea.  Animal tracks in the concrete walk.


Historic sign south of Kearney
where we are placing a new cache