Our friends invited us out to go geocaching with them. Basically, this is where you type in coordinates into your GPS and you try to find hidden treasures. This paticular geocache was near Romeo and Juliette's Castles. Our friends Randy and Jolanta are serious Geocachers. We...well, we like to spend time with friends, explore, and then eat good food. Randy and Jolanta are real fun people to be around. Easy-going, free-spirited friends. They did an excellent job explaining to Maddy, Shelly, and me the how's and why's of geocaching.
The weather around here has started to turn for the winter, but on the day we set out...it was fantastic. Perfect weather for geo-caching. The geocache we set out to find had significant meaning for Randy and Jolanta...They named it "star crossed lovers," after Romeo and Juliette...and their one-year anniversarry. They use geocaching.com to set and find all of their geocacaches. If you go to that page and type in "star crossed lovers" this is what you will read. (You don't need an account, but why not sign up...it is FREE!)
This cache helps to discover the story of 2 lovers who could never be. You can hike to it from a variety of nearby roads, or park close by in the parking lot.If you want to see a movie you could even wait until 2130 to see new movies in a national landmark. The cache is a short drive from Vicenza or Verona and is even near a popular site for weddings and parties. The plastic container is clear with a blue lid. After you find it please share a story of love or romance that you have experienced. My wife and I placed this for our 1 year anniversary and hope to hear for years to come stories from all who find it.
Here are a few pics of the four of us checking out Romeo's castle before we set off on the hunt. The castle in the background is Juliette's.
The girls strike a pose to prove they are indeed ready to actually walk on a none paved surface.
After Randy typed in the exact location into his GPS, it was off to the hunt.
Maddy took the GPS and was a real pro. I think she had the most fun of all of us.
Maddy saw this rock and thought it had to be the rock...she was right! 
Maddy found the geocache!
5 comments:
That is too awesome! So did you see the Juliet statue and rub the mammories? That is supposed to bring fertility, or luck, or something! LOL!
Wow, what a good time! You guys look great, especially the ladies 'striking a pose'!
Thanks Deb and George. The statue is actually in Verona. One of our broadcasters did a Destinations piece where he rubbed the girls and then said something pretty obscene. It was delivered in a very "cheeky" manner. I pulled it! He was mad and said the network never crosses the line. In his defense...it was funny.
Way cool! I read about this in Sunset Mag about a year ago...and would really like to do this sometime. I also heard about an activity where you leave your initials in a box then transport someplace else for another group to find....do you know what this is called? Am I crazy - is it different or the same?
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