This is the last full day that
Hugo is going to be with us. Cordell asked him this morning if he wanted to go
geocaching today and Hugo enthusiastically replied, “YES, YES”! Well, this is
the 30th day of our August geocaching challenge and we have
succeeded in finding a cache every day. So we must go geocaching.
Since we had no other plans for
this day, we decided to drive across the Patuxent River to Charles County and
look for a few geocaches there. I remembered that we were going to pass a
geocache that took Cordell and me three times to find. We decided that this was
to be Hugo’s final examination for his caching lessons.
And so, we sat on a bench and
checked our e-mail and looked at Facebook while Hugo was searching, searching,
searching. We gave him a clue and he continued to search and search and search.
We gave him another clue and the searching continued. And we were able to finish reading our e-mail and put some posts on Facebook and take a long rest!
Finally, after 45 minutes
had passed, Hugo was able to see what he needed to see and he retrieved the
cache! Success!! He passed his examination and has received a certificate.
For the remainder of our geocaching
time, we looked for much easier caches. We found seven new caches today and Hugo found eight. But, unfortunately there was one that
none of us could find. We even returned to it for a second time this day to
look again before coming back home, but no luck for us.
Shortly after we returned home, Hugo
received a video call from his family and I could see that they were excited
about having him back in France again. We ate our last dinner together and it
was hard to realize that ten days have passed so quickly with Hugo.
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