We actually went out and about on a Saturday!

I know you're probably getting sick of red rock pictures, but I'm including one of the view I see every morning while doing water aerobics. Having a gorgeous view makes exercising so much easier!

But as to our actually leaving the campground on a Saturday; we were invited by the campground activities director, Shirley, to join a few couples who were going to go geo-caching. Since we just recently bought our Meridian Gold hand-held GPS, I figured it would be good practice in using it and figuring out some of the screens, plus geo-caching sounded like a lot of fun. There were four couples, three of whom had GPS systems and one that came along for the ride to see if they would like the experience enough to buy a hand-held GPS. We ended up going to three different caches in the area, choosing the ones easiest to get to and that didn't take a lot of walking, yet were interesting. Audry and Jim found the first one, Sandy and her Jim found the second and Denny and I found the third. We enjoyed comparing the results of the directions between the two brands of GPs systems (I think the other two couples had Garmins) and trying to figure out how to read the screens to find the caches. After the third cache we decided to celebrate at the Hunan City Restaurant in Hurricane, UT, which everyone enjoyed and then because I mentioned what a great pie maker Denny was they had to run to the store and buy a pie since I made them hungry for one! We had a lot of fun and I think I learned more about our personal GPS system by taking it out and using it for geocaching than I have by reading the instruction manual.

I won't go into specifics about the caches so not to ruin them for others, but the one in the Silver Reef area was a good site simply because there are other things to see in the area. There is a Wells Fargo building there that is on the National Historic Register, a sculptor has a business nearby, there are two pioneer cemeteries there as well as the remains of several silver mines.

While we were out at the second cache, Sandy introduced us to the pleasure of eating prickly pear which is very sweet and good as long as you don't bite in so far that you get a mouthful of seeds. Of course, you eat the reddish purple pod at the end of the cactus, not the cactus plant itself.

All in all, quite a productive day!