Geocaching and More Birthdays...

For Grandma Jean's birthday we went geocaching around Ventura (we kinda like to go there a lot) and from the pictures you can see it was a somewhat cold and rainy-ish day... so much for coming to Cali to get away from the rain, at least it was for only one day, bummer it had to be a birthday day though. But despite the weird socal weather it was still a very fun day of adventure. Our first stop was a picnic lunch right along the beach where we witnessed a pod of dolphins, sea lions riding the surf, pelicans dive bombing the ocean waves, and a very large, very hungry family of squirrels.

These little guys were so not afraid of us... Heidi even got to stroke this little guy's back.

Even Lizzie had them eating chips out of her own hands.

After lunch we went in search of treasure... unfortunately the first couple of attempts were duds... the ocean is still breath taking in rotten weather though!

I think Abby was more than ready to move onto the next cache... or at the very least to a spot off the road where she could run around.

She found it... and some of her very own treasure.

Lizzie was hiding in the car waiting for the rain to stop.

Yay, finally nicer weather and a really cool fort amongst the rocks right before the beach.

I think they might have finally found something...

Yep, sure enough... who knew that SPOR meant special placement of rocks... we know now! : )

Nothing beats a warm cup of coffee, or in Abby's case a big glass of milk, after a long day of searching for treasure!

Happy birthday Jean, sorry it rained on your birthday, but hopefully you were able to enjoy your grandkids no matter what the weather decided to throw your way. We love you!