Me on Monday

Waving to Sian and all who read my blog.

It was a Geocaching kind of weekend as it was the 15 year birthday of geocaching.

This weekend 15 years ago the US government made 24 satellites available around the world available to all thus improving the accuracy of every GPS.  Before this time only the military had access to these satellites.  A few days later Dave Ulmer, a computer consultant had the idea to hide a container in the woods and post the co-ordinates on the internet, three days later two people read about it and used their own GPS receivers to find the container and over the next few months Geocaching was born.

Saturday morning my son and I found our first cache of the weekend in a store car park, we then went to the local garden centre for tea/coffee as he was leaving shortly after to play at a wedding reception.

Sunday we went to a geocache meet at Sand Point on the Somerset coast, I had not visited this area before despite living in the town close by many years ago.

It is a beautiful area, I was a little anxious when I got there due to my recent back problems as there was a hill to climb  and a walk along the top but I managed it.  We met the others and enjoyed our hilltop birthday party, Tara particularly enjoyed all the food on the ground at her level but she did not put me to shame and it was someone else's dog who leaped onto the picnic blanket and stole the sausage rolls!  (Not the one in the photo either)

After the get together my son and I went for a short walk to find a couple of geocaches then back to the car for a picnic lunch.

Tara decided she had looked at the rocks long enough and started to make her way back to the top after we had gone to the bottom of the side of the hill.

It was good to get out for a walk after being home for several weeks and only going for short walks.

Me on Monday is a wonderful idea started by Sian from High in the Sky 

do visit her blog to see what bloggers are up to on Monday.