A trip to a local park last week. Tim has placed a puzzle geocache there. On this beautiful day, the kids and I solved the puzzle, but were unable to get to the cache as other geocachers were also looking and we didn't want to ruin the first-to-find for them. These spider web climbers are in just about every park all over the island. This day Simon and Mia both overcame their feaer and climbed all the way to the top! We actually came home with a little bit of sunburn.

This weekend, we attended an event cache on Saturday morning at a Japanese campground with an amazing view (tent sites, as well as huts with small kitchen and bath facilities which seem to be run entirely on solar power), met some of the other cachers on the island. There were games, contests, and fellowship. Lots of kids running around, climbing rocks, running races, throwing sticks - good clean fun. Then Sunday, we headed up to find a geocache at The British Wine and Tea Shop in the northern part of our island. Lovely shop, good company, delicious menu, including proper English tea and fresh homemade scones and jam. We also headed up to Yaedake Bread of Life Bakery and adjacent farm (where a friend of ours recently spent a month WWOOFing) to place a cache of our own, using our minimal Japanese to explain geocaching to the owners. This was all totally new to them, they were excited to learn about the game. We left there with a bag of oranges and a papaya from their farm, and, of course, some bread from the bakery. We got home late and the kids were naturally and happily exhausted. Since our weekends are pretty much full of geocaching and exploring, that means Mondays are catching up on housework and chores, so I must go...