Fathers Day adventures....

The entire family got out today, we decided that a lovely afternoon should be spent outside. So after getting everyone we headed out. Luckily this part of the state has enough caches to make 5 to 10 per trip very reasonable. Today was no different as we had around 10 or so caches lined up.
Setting out we headed toward a round barn find. Quickly grabbing this cache, it was unique in that it used a contact lense holder! Never seen that before. We moved on to a old one lane covered bridge and grabbed the next find. The third cache was location in a cemetery and was AWOL. Sadly, that can be a very common thing. This cache had just been replaced not more then a month before this after being muggled. Upon getting home I sent the owner a note. The cache discription left nothing to guess for once you got there and looked. So I made a note, emailed him with the specifics and we moved on.
Upon arriving in the small town at the north end of the adventure, we discovered our next location to be heavily muggle oriented and decided to move on, maybe later!
The next spot was vacant, another park, it was a small neighborhood park and well cared for. We let the kids out and the find was made in a minute or two. Storm clouds started building to the west, so we decided to run and make a few more grabs. The next location was a settlement cemetery that had grown over the years. The access was made and we say many graves of historic nature. The GPS led us right to the cache, we signed and finished looking about as the clouds moved farther in.
Heading out, we knew of another location on the route home, we stopped. As we walked into the location a large tree branch came crashing down in front of us. Mrs. Wapahani stated "perhaps that is a sign!"....I had to chuckle. The river is close to this location and this month we had experienced flooding here, and the water had been up to the cache location. After about 15 minutes of looking we decided that freshly trimmed trees, and cleaned earth, plus flooding of recent weeks left this cache MIA or muggled. Move on! I hate to say it, but this certain owner seems to have a high percentage of uncared for or MIA caches. We have made the choice to no longer go after this persons caches, as most generally (50%+ of them are gone and we aren't the first to note this!)

So down the road we go. We arrive and chuckle at the next location. It had 3 trees in the entire place, leaving little to the GPS or GPSless cacher to wonder.
We followed the GPS to be sure and well, sure enough it was there. The cache hadn't been found in a year and we wondered if it would remain. Sure enough, there it was!
I opened it and it was WET. We signed a new sheet, stuck it in and rehid the cache, moving forward.

Next we decided to press our luck with the weather, the clouds looked horrible, but nothing on the radio about weather yet. Turns out we would be wrong. As we approached a major intersection we saw a van with flashing lights and a cop setting next to them. The van said "SkyWarn", leaving little to the imagination. The clouds started rolling and sure enough looked BAD. We decided to try and get the next cache as it was only 3 miles away. We arrived but no rain yet, nor lightning. So we booked it to the location, and it had to be far from parking. We found it really quick for its type cache, and signed the book. We decided the weather would win today and we would call it a day!

So, the totals today, 6 finds, 3DNF's..... Total for 2 weeks is now at 21 finds!
And at the end of the day I got "Happy Fathers Day!"...nice