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Egg Rolling Geocaching Event

May 5, 2019Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged blog, blogging, Decorate, Easter, Easter Egg Rolling, Easter fun, egg rolling, events, family, Family fun, Free, fun, Geocaching, GilmourFamily, kids, life, Pokemon, Riley, Robyn, sophie, The Gilmours, travel, weekend, Wonder Woman, youtube, youtubersLeave a comment

So we mentioned the Egg Rolling Geocaching event in a recent previous blog post and we thought we better share what we got up to with you all.

We went along on Easter Sunday and it was our second year to visit this much loved event. It’s so much fun and the kids were looking forward to it. We decided to get rubber eggs this year, a tad naughty, we just wanted to have some extra fun. Each of us decorated our eggs as you can see, they are placed in age order as well.

Both sides were decorated, above are the reverse of the eggs. I think you will agree that we all put some great effort into them.

Egg Rolling is basically to roll an egg down the hill and to see which one gets the farthest. We wanted to share the fun with you so have put together a short video for you all…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7xoKHpu9wQ&w=560&h=315]

Unfortunately I had an influx of work and had to do some traveling but now I am back I am able to update you on our happenings. I have a few draft blog posts ready to go and so you should hear from us again soon.

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Jennifer

Easter Egg Rolling- Next Weekend

April 12, 2019Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged 2018, 2019, blog, blogging, Competition, Easter, Easter Egg Rolling, Easter fun, Easter Sunday, egg rolling, event, events, family, Family fun, Free, fun, Geocache, Geocachers, Geocaching, Geocaching Event, kids, life, Riley, Robyn, sophie, travel, weekendLeave a comment

Last year we attended Bobo Frett’s Easter Egg Rolling event for the first time. A Geocaching event with a bit of fun added into it.

We will be returning to this years event which is next weekend on the 21st April 2-3pm.

This year we are a little better prepared as we know what to expect. All three kids have already decorated their eggs and are excited for this years event.

You can find out more over at GC852WV, let us know if you are coming as well.

A social gathering for geocachers to discuss geocaching.

The Brocklesby Egg Rolling Competition 2019

Roll up! Roll up! And once you’ve rolled up let’s roll down…again!

This is our fifth egg rolling competition down Mausoleum Hill on the Brocklesby Estate. Egg rolling is not compulsory.

Have a look at the fun we had at last year’s event:

Brocklesby Egg Rolling 2018

Easter Sunday Geocaching event by Sophie Gilmour

See you there…

The Gilmour’s

Sometimes it doesn’t work out…

May 6, 2018Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged Brocklesby, Cache, caches, car, daughter, DNF, Easter, egg rolling, family, flute, fun, Geocaching, hubby, life, love, lunch, oops, pied piper, Riley, Robyn, sophie, sun, SWAG, trail, walking, weatherLeave a comment

Yesterday we planned to spend the bank holiday Geocaching (of course)! The sun is out and it’s perfect weather for some caching fun.

However it just didn’t work out for us on the Saturday. We went out to the Brocklesby Estate and planned to get a good amount of caches since we had been there last year and had realised just how big the trail was! In fact you may recognise the name because we came here for the egg rolling event as well. It’s simply beautiful.

You can find number 1 of the trail at GC3KAC7.

We didn’t start at cache 1 but in fact at cache 10, in quick form our caching day looked like this: We found the first one easy, in fact it was Sophie who found it. The second we had no look. The third we bumped into a whole team of cachers who had set out to do the full 56 in one day! They found the cache for us and we signed the log 😉

We then sat and had some lunch as Robyn was a bit grizzly – to be honest she was very tired. The fourth cache we had no luck, it was more the inability to spend time on it with the three kids getting stung by nettles and shouting they had found it when they hadn’t. We just didn’t feel it and had spent a good few hours having a slow paced day.

Don’t get me wrong we had fun and it was the first time we didn’t mind not caching more, no frustration, we simply enjoyed the glorious sun.

And Robyn was way too interested in all of the mole hills, there were hundreds and she insisted in stopping at each one to investigate.

I better share this video of Rob who was trying to be the pied piper on the way back. The flute was some swag from a previous cache we had found.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypB7kFe-ao&w=560&h=315]

So… if you ever aren’t ‘feeling’ it… it’s ok… embrace it.

Jennifer