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My First Geocaching Event

11/29/2015

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Took a break from the frustrations of report card writing this afternoon to meet my girlfriend in the east end and do a little geocaching.  Some sort of geocaching "event" was taking place, which is basically a meet-up organized by a geocacher responsible for a specific group of caches.

In this case, the caches had to do with "Orphan Black",  a clone-themed sci-fi series, filmed in Toronto,  that Tats and I have recently begun watching.

The event began at "Jim's restaurant", an establishment near Queen and Logan, which is featured in a scene from Season Two of the series, and which is slated to be torn down and replaced by condos in the near future.
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I'm not sure what was more mesmerizing to me, the locale or the event participants:  The diner was some sort of greasy spoon with hilarious signs posted all around -- we were informed that Helen Waite was the new person in charge of rush orders, for example, and that if we were in a hurry, we should go to Helen Waite.  

Then there was the money jar at the cash, with a hand made sign requesting donations to a local, generic charity,  imploring the reader to consider what it was like to be poor and starving, and assuring the reader that God, who "is watching us" would "reward you greater than what you donate".  (Oh, and they "also support African Orphans". ) 

Well!

The actual geocachers attending the event were no less intriguing...  The roughly 12 people in attendance came in all shapes and sizes. Most of them had "real" GPS units (as opposed to the more ubiquitous smartphone versions), and they were very proud to show and share with this muggle!!!
At some point someone pulled out a travel bug, and suddenly, there was a pile of them sitting on the table in front of me:
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These people were very serious cachers, and most of them had been to several events before.  

​I was taken with how much protocol there seemed to be with the whole thing... everyone referred to one another by their caching handles rather than their actual names (made for a little confusion for me and the one other muggle in the group!), and everyone had a million interesting stories to share about the time they got stopped by the marine unit while trying to find a terrain 5, or the fact that they no longer tried to find difficulty 1s, because they were trying to up their average...  the geekiness of it all was kind of fun, and I found myself really drawn into their stories.

​After lunch, we did a little geocaching with the event organizer, and found one of her Orphan Black-themed caches (right near Mrs. S's house from the show, and I found the cache!!!)
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Finally, it was time to head home and make another attempt at finishing report cards, despite the slow, sluggish system problems I'd been encountering all weekend (I'm in part referring to my own system,
yes, but also the actual report card system, which hails from over a decade ago, and is painfully out of date, technologically speaking, making it exceedingly frustrating for any teacher attempting to use it!!)

I was glad to have attended this geocaching event -- even though I've often hunted for treasures with Tats, I had never actually gone to a meet-up like this with her.  I feel like I have a better appreciation now for my partner's hobby, and for some of the people who engage in it.
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    After writing for several teacher and multiple birth publications, including ETFO's Voice Magazine, Multiple Moments, and the Bulletwin, Vera turned her written attention to prolific blogging for some years, including BiB,  "Learn to Fly with Vera!"  and SMARTbansho .  Homeschooling 4 was her travel blog in Argentina.  She now spends more time on her Instagram (@schalgzeug_usw)  than her blog (pictures are worth a thousand words?!) 
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