The Dark Park Cache has quite a following with the neighborhood kids. I grew up in this neighborhood and my parents still live there. So when we go over to visit, my own kids now play with the neighborhood kids. And running up to the park to check on the cache (that my oldest son created) and playing at the playground is of course on the top of their to do list. Listening to the stories of what they find in the cache, they did describe a cool yellow hummer. Maybe too cool, as it was swooped up quite quickly by Julia, age 7, who (hopefully) still has it. I'm not sure Julia has ever been introduced to Geocaching, other than knowing to check the cache in the park, and knowing that she has to trade for anything she finds. And unfortunately, I'm quite sure she doesn't know what to do with a travel bug, even if the dog tag has instructions. Only kids were there when she found it, and only by chance did I notice the travel bug icon in the Dark Park Cache Map and put two and two together with the Hummer. I'll pass along an e-mail to my parents. Maybe they can coax it out of her. Recent enough that she should still have it. The trick will be convincing her to let it go. Or getting her to be the one that sends the hummer to a new cache. Too bad there wasn't another cache near by that would allow her to do this. Maybe we can bring a cache to her, next time we visit my parents. We're in the process of making one, and we could figure out something that she'd want to trade for.
To be continued...