Colorado - Treasure Hunting

So one of the things we like to do for fun (in Colorado or not) is go look for geocaches. If you don't know what this is, you get to go look it up on Google! We call it treasure hunting for the kids and we actually have our own treasure box that we maintain in Burleson.

Anyhow, there are some good geocaches in Colorado and we looked up some of them on a couple of different days.

The first day, we all tried to go, but by the time we got to the top of Bachelor (a road & a mountain in Creede), JM was asleep so I stayed with him while the others went looking.


Okay - I did go check out the treasure box once they found the one in sight of the van! (it was hidden in one of the tree stumps).


Clara picked a clear blue piece of glass for her "treasure."


This was Clara's favorite part of the that day's trip. As she put it,
"The burnt down cabin 'cause they didn't paint." Mike said that he always loved to come and see it when he was younger, too.


On the drive down, we saw lots of deer.

Aunt Mary Jo went with the girls & Mike for the next treasure hunt. I think they went back to Bachelor to find some different caches that we didn't have time for on the first day.


Here they are, heading into the forest...


Success, treasure located!


Happy girls with their treasure. Gracie got marbles and a compass. Clara chose tattoos. And I think Aunt Mary Jo got a magnet and maybe a geocoin(you move these from cache to cache & log on to a website so the owners can follow their movements - we have something similar to this in our treasure box!) Gracie loves her compass & has been guiding us with it in the van since she got it. I was informed just yesterday that I had parked "east."