The original plan today was
for Hugo and Cordell to go sailing with our good friend, Jim Hauser. However,
since the weather report was forecasting thunder storms in the afternoon, it
was decided to postpone the sailing trip until Saturday.
So, we drove over to
Arlington, Virginia, and spent some time touring there while looking for
geocaches in the area. We began at the United States Air Force Memorial which
was dedicated on October 14, 2006. It was my second time visiting this memorial
and it is one of my favorites. There is a very nice view of Washington, D.C.
across the Potomac River.
There is a puzzle geocache
that requires six pieces of information from the various signs at the memorial.
Among other things, we had to determine: the number of Medals of Honor awarded to Air Force
personnel during peacetime; the number of people in the Air Force honor guard
(the statue); the number of words in the Rickenbacker quote and the name of the sculptor of the honor guard
statue. Once we had the six numbers, they were inserted into coordinates in our
GPS devices and that led us to a cache that was hidden two miles away. History
class was never this interesting for me when I was in school.
We stopped for lunch at Cesar’s
Diner. We had planned to grab a quick bite at McDonald’s but that restaurant
was so busy that we couldn’t even find a place to park our car. We had a
delicious lunch and I was glad that we had to skip the fast food.
There are many, many caches in
the Arlington area, but we stopped at only three more before starting back
home. Hugo began caching last week and we are trying to give him a lot of
experience before he goes back over the ocean. He saw some clever hides today.
Shortly after we returned
home, we had dinner and then headed out to our lake behind our house to try our
luck at fishing. There is a difference in “fishing” and “catching”. Cordell
caught two bass while Hugo and I simply fished. We were tired from our
activities this day and spent a quiet evening.
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