Wrath557's 1K Celebration - 1/6/2013

It's pretty unusual for geocachers in Memphis to have an event on a Sunday evening, but it turned out to be a great day for Wrath557's 1K Celebration by amarillo_tail  (GC42Y83).  I spent the afternoon hiking over to Mud Island and exploring parts of downtown Memphis.  By the time, I got back to my home base, it was getting dark and I knew that I wouldn't be able to hunt any geocaches before the event.  Of course, not having my GPSr with me also limited any possible cache hunting.

The event was a pizza party held at Garibaldi's Pizza near the University of Memphis.  I hadn't been to Garibaldi's since I was a college student 25 years or so ago.  I don't recall eating there when I was a grad student, even though I lived a couple of blocks away...  Anyways, it was great to go back!  I got there early, and sat with peanutpapa   Soon the pizza came and I made sure to eat my fair share of it.  Wrath557's golden ammo can sat at the next table, and it was full of goodies even before other cachers arrived.

As usual, I didn't mingle very much, but I enjoyed hearing that peanutpapa had placed some new caches at W.C. Johnson Park in Collierville.  I got to discover a bunch of cool geocoins that BnJBish brought as well as a cool Star Trek travel bug.

I left a little early, but overall I had a pretty good time.  By the time I left, Wrath557's ammo can had probably the most swag I've seen.

Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate pcsenn for his 5k find.  An event was hosted for him on New Year's Day by tatersfan.

Flash Mob at the Memphis Zoo - 1/1/2013

I did no caching over my extended Christmas break.  I just haven't felt up to it.  As a matter of fact, I almost forgot that I had signed up for The Zoo Flash Mob by Playful Seaotter (GC42XV3) on New Year's Day.  I arrived at the park with only a minute or two to spare.  A 15 minute event lasted about an hour with everyone discussing geocaching-related matters.

As the event was breaking up, some of the other cachers wanted to take advantage of the fact that zoo admission on Tuesdays after 2pm is free to Tennessee residents and find the cache located on the zoo grounds.  A group of seven made our way to the Teton Trak exhibit where the cache was supposed to be located.  When we couldn't find the cache, we discovered in the online logs that the cache had DNFs stretching back to the summer.  We managed as a group to improvise a new container and log and marked the cache as found.  It was really too cold to tour the rest of the zoo so we parted ways.