Our new way of Geocaching

For quite some time we have been wondering how we can keep up with the kids when they are ahead of us on their scooters. After a while, we finally got to the point; ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’.

In January I purchased an adult push scooter for Rob after thinking about it for around nine months, we never had the money to dive into getting them. It was Rob’s birthday so it was a perfect excuse, Decathlon is reasonable on price and the quality is great. We had bought the kid’s first scooters from there around three years ago. It was quite funny because Rob had thought I had bought him some furniture because the box was huge, he was like a kid on Christmas Day when all was revealed.

It was so popular that we decided to upgrade Riley’s and Sophie’s scooters as they have Birthdays in Jan and Feb, Robyn had her first scooter already from Christmas. It was just myself left without, but we had agreed that my Birthday present would be a scooter and there wasn’t that long to wait, Rob couldn’t wait until March and wanted to get it as soon as he could.

There we have it, a family gliding together into the distance.

The perfect place to go Geocaching on scooters with children is the old railway lines. We have been watching the new series of Walking Britains Lost Railway Lines for inspiration, starting close to home and we will strive a little further in the future. Planning on investing in camping equipment for our adventures.

We will keep you in the loop.

Enjoy this short clip of us scooting about whilst Geocaching.

 

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Jen & co.

A walk across the Humber Bridge

A bit of a different post today because we didn’t Geocache this weekend! We went on a walk over the Humber Bridge which is just down the road from us.

The walk was actually a part of Christian Aid. I used to do the walk when I was younger so I was delighted to reminisce and complete it again but with my own children (and husband of course).

The idea is to gain sponsorship for each crossing you complete, each side is a station in which you get your card stamped. I wasn’t expecting anymore than 2 (there and back) with the three kids.

With Robyn on her walking bike we knew this could take us some time! In fact Robyn insisted on completing 3/4 of the way on the first crossing to bike it at snail speed. How she enjoyed it and how everyone went on ahead. Robyn was determined.

This is on the other side of the Humber Bridge and with some of our Church family from Tower Hill Methodist Church.

It took us 2 hours to complete the 4 mile walk and the children enjoyed themselves.

There is a virtual cache on the Humber Bridge by the way.

Here are the children upon completion.

Now collecting sponsorship for the two crossings. Get in touch if you want to sponsor Sophie, Riley and Robyn. Up to the 19th May 2018.

Jennifer and Co

Ps the cover photo of the blog is from around four years ago.