We stayed home for Spring Break this year since we went to Solvang and Santa Barbara for Mid-Winter Break (maybe I'll get around to posting those pictures sometime...) Monday we went to the Tulip Festival, Tuesday and Wednesday we hung out at home and Ben played with a friend, and Thursday Ben and I went on a hike. We started at the Forest to Sky trail head and then continued through Battlepoint Park to the Ferry Dell trail down to the beach.
Ben asked if we could try geocaching, so I downloaded the app and discovered there was a cache at Battlepoint right along our route. It took us a little while to figure out the whole compass/GPS thing, but after roaming around in the bushes for a while, we eventually we found our first cache! The search and discovery was much more satisfying than what was actually inside the cache, just a bunch of miscellaneous trinkets and a notepad to record our name and the date.
Lovely trees at Battlepoint
The Fairy Dell trail really feel like a fairy land!
The sun was out down at the beach so we poked around for a while. The tide was out and the beach was extremely mucky, but Ben enjoyed racing pistachio shells in the little stream that ran through it.
After we got home, we looked up another near-by cache and walked down to the pocket park across the highway. This one was much harder to find, partly because it was so small (yes, Ben is holding it in his hand), but we prevailed!
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