Merry Blogmas Day 6 Geocaching

My challenge today was to go geocaching.  Unfortunately this was a fail :(

I started out by logging into the geocaching site and checking to see if there were any geocaches within walking distance.  Happily, there were!  So I watched a refresher "how to" video, set up the c:geo app on my phone (you can buy the official app but this one works about the same and is free), watched a video on how to set up the app, and I was ready to go.

I walked over to the location of the first cache and looked all over for it but couldn't find it.  I mean there was one tree in the entire area surrounded by parking lot pavement so it had to be there but I just couldn't find it after walking around the tree several times.  It was labeled "micro" cache so that means it's a tiny tiny tube so maybe I just missed it so I went to the second cache several hundred fee away, looked all over, and again I couldn't find anything!  This cache was labeled small so surely I thought I could find it but no.  Again, I walked around the location several times but couldn't find anything.  It's a good thing I'm not a detective!

This was one of the caches I was looking for...

...so I followed the compass to the GPS coordinates...

...and I found this tree and nothing else...

But I did see this cute Christmas decoration on the way home from my walk...