Kim Karalekas

So, I had some friends from Salem visiting this past week. (p.s. quick tangent…I think it’s funny how depending on where I am geographically, or who I am talking to, I’ll change the location of where I am from or where I know people from. Like…if I was talking to a Texan and just said that, I would have said my friends from Oregon or my friends from Portland. If I was in Salem, I’d say my friends from Sprague. If I was in Eugene, I’d say my friends from high school, if I was in Portland I’d say my friends from Salem…if I was in a different country…well, I’d prob. say my American friends…)

Anyway, back to my original thought…

GEOCACHING!!! Yep, that sure happened this weekend. So I spent the weekend showing Kyle + Kristin the things that make Austin so great. We went down to the trail on Town Lake and headed over toward Barton Springs. Then all of a sudden, we thought: hey, let’s find a geocache! So, I ashamed to say I didn’t go the hardcore route…i.e. I used the geocaching app. on my phone…but that’s ok, it was still a treasure hunt!

So, we ended up near the botanical garden and our clue was that is hidden near the gate.

Beautiful gate, no? So, we’re searching all around the gate for a minute or two and…DUN DUN DUN DUN!!!! I found it!!

The cache was hidden inside the bottom of a rock!

Kristin was pretty stoked:

Here’s the log that was within the cache. Looks like a ton of people have found it prior to us.

And now we are forever a part of this log. Please note the wonderful use of product placement, aka my API pen.

That night, we went to the hey cupcake! trailer. As I was waiting, I looked to see if there were any caches around. Low and behold, there was one .14 miles away! So off Kyle and I went…

Our clue was that it was in a busy location and it was in a 2 lb. peanut butter jar. We walked up and down a 1 block area at least 4 or 5 times…where could it be….where could it be?!

…then, Kyle stuck his hand down this hole (!!!). IT WAS THERE!

This was by far the better cache I think – and thank god KS was there, as there’s no way in hell I would have put my hand in there! (or thought to do so either!)

This cache had a log AND treasures! We each took a treasure and put one in for the next cachers.

Here’s what I took. So freaking awesome. And look at the guy in the middle with the creeper ‘stache.

“JEWbacca”?? excellent. (;