Geocaching or There was Shakespeare at the Troll

Have you done any geocaching?  Last week at a wonderful birthday party for Simone’s classmate Meredith, we geo-cached at Richmond Beach and discovered an artillery box full of books. Smitten with the adventure, we decided to create a pop-up small book to add to the artillery box cache.

We wanted to share the fun of geocaching with our pals McKinley and Kaya Daggatt who live in Seattle’s Freemont neighborhood.

We started at noon and put together an assortment of tiny toys to leave in the geocaches and we set off for the first site. It was a stone’s throw from the Daggatt houseboat on Lake Union.

We searched every inch of the grassy knoll but (4 feet or not)….no cache was found!

Discouraged, we conferred (family meeting) and decided to move on to another cache hidden at the Fremont Troll. (FYI. McKinley is sporting Zombie make-up for the 5 pm massive gathering of Zombies.)

Naomi shouts, “Look Simone, it’s our house,” as we pass a welded fence with an image of the Smith Tower.

It is always fun to visit the Troll under Aurora Bridge. He holds a real VW bug in his hand. Turns out, Work It Productions’ was holding a performance of Shakespeare at the Troll starting right when we arrived. It was a series of scenes and sonnets from Bard’s works. The girls lined up eagerly to watch.

When it was over (an hour later) the treasure hunt resumed. The hint was that this cache was magnetic.

“Nothing in his nose.” – Kaya”

“It’s not on the signs or the railing.” -Naomi”“Something is wrong. I don’t think it is here. Muggles must have got this one too.” -Kaya.  (Group meeting.) This is not working. ” Let’s go put on our Zombie outfits!” – McKinley.