34 Finds and even more Family!

Today was a fun day! This morning we drove from Kerman down to Castaic for our neice and nephew's first birthday party. We left really early so we stopped part of the way down to watch the sun rise. That was neat!

We got to Castaic, and just as I said to the girls, "There's Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Renee's house," we saw Jeremy was pull out, so we exited the freeway and then followed them to Heritage Park for the party. There were a LOT of people there to celebrate Lily and Zachary's first birthday! Renee's mom and three of her sisters and several neices and nephews were there, and on Jeremy's side, including us, my mom, Kathryn came down from Alaska and my dad, Don, brought great-gma Willie down from Fresno.

It was HOT! It was so very, very hot! It was 100 degrees and very humid! As Jeremy said, when they planned the party it was the coolest summer on record, and who knew it would be so incredibly hot! Yikes! (At 7:00pm we took a photo of our car's thermometer - it was STILL 107 degrees!)

The theme of the party was the Backyardagains, and the kids played pin the necktie on one of the characters, and my mom had made some cupcakes with the characters on them. They looked great and when it was time for the twins to have their cake, they had a wonderful time getting frosting all over the place! It was great!

After the party we went back to Jer and Renee's and spent a few hours visiting. When it was obvious that Katrina needed a nap and wasn't going to even try with all that was going on, we left and went to do some geocaching on the way home.

Before today we had a record of 27 finds in one day, but thanks to the plethora of caches in the LA area, we were able to find a record-breaking 34 caches in one day! And that includes a record 0 no finds as well! There were some that were simple park and grabs. In fact the way we approached one cache made it so we didn't even have to get out of the car! Then there were also some really new and different ones. We even found one that was hidden in a camoflauged metal film reel canister. We have never seen that kind of hide before. We also found several benchmarks and made several travel bug trades. We cached until we were having to use a flashlight to find, and then it was time to head home. It was a really long, but a very fun day!

See the Party pics here.