Tick Talk

OK, so we went geocaching on Wednesday. I had never heard of this until last year, but 2 of the people in our group like to look them up, so we thought why not, this may be fun. We only found one last year. We had a list of about 6 to find (you program the coordinates into your GPS and find these little boxes, pill bottles, etc with logs, and little trinkets in them. So we went to the Town of Cook for the first adventure. My friend Jodie found it first. We then headed to the country and couldn't find the next location?? We then went on some back windy roads toward Lake Vermillion and Jesse was the lucky one to find this treasure (what the kids called it) under a bridge. We then decided that we'd try to find one more, on the way to this particular one we decided to see how close we could get to another one. Kaylie fell asleep in the van, and my friend Tiff ( 8 months pregnant) decided to stay with her, while the rest of us took on the 1.8 mile trek(who knows what we were thinking) Jesse, Jack and I were wearing long pants to keep the bugs away of course we had dowsed ourselves with lots of bug spray too. Here is the gist of my long story:::

About .4 miles into the trip, while huffing and puffing Mike looks down and sees WOOD TICKS crawling all over his legs, he says" I got some ticks" we all continue to look down and see also that we are covered in them!!!! (I am itchy just thinking about it!) We hurried back to the car and decided that we'd had enough geocaching for the day. I bet we picked off 100 ticks between the 8 of us. Thank goodness the kids were riding on shoulders and didn't have too many.

PS the mosquitoes and gnats were bad too, my kids are covered in bites, but it still was a fun adventure.