As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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I was at the library yesterday, and looking for books on a certain subject. Picked one up, and it felt light. Well, it had been hollowed out, and a small baggie with trinkets in it was in the space. On the inside front cover was a note about Geo-Caching, and asking for it to be left if it had been found accidently.
It even had a Dewey Decimal tag on it, but I think it was fake.
I've heard of Geo-caching before, but never knew what it was truly.
Anyone out there do it? I know where there's a book in Indiana....
We have done many Geo-Caches in our area. There is a website where you can put in the zip code of the area you are in and it will list all of the caches. Chhose one and it will give you GPS coordinates. We use our hand help GPS and go to the location. The kids each pick out a trinket and then we put one back in for each one we take out (we usually get them from the dollar dtore - maybe a rubber stamp or magic towel). You also sign a log book. Then replace the cache for the next hunters.
It's really fun for both adults and kids. There are also hearder ones and easier ones.
Must have been a strange feeling at first to come upon a book without it's insides!
I've read a few sites online about this hide and seek GPS game. Sounds interesting, but on the other hand I think all of us have just too much time on our hands!
Dad and were mushroom hunting and found one. We were at a state park in Indiana and found an old amination bow in a tree. Dad thought it was weird and he opened it. After I explained what it was he thinks we should start doing this in our "spare" time. Spare time is a word that doesn't exsist April - July we are running the local Little League. I am President and Dad runs concession
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Time for the magic?
Let's plan another trip!!
I have looked into this and have been wanting to do it for quite some time. I thought it would be a fun thing to do as a family. We haven't started our search yet, but I hope one day we will.
I think there are some geo "treasures" on WDW property. It would be so fun to hunt one of those down.
My dd, Lori and my niece and her husband go geo caching in their spare time. They're all going tomorrow while I work. Lori thinks it's a lot of fun. Most of the stuff she puts into the caches they find is from either the dollar store or the clearance aisle at Wal-Mart.
Liz
How cool to have found a cache. What were the trinkets?
All small pieces - there was an address book that I guess was the log book. The trinkets were small plastic animals, some jigsaw puzzle pieces, some of the tiniest little tea cups I've ever seen, and.....well, that's all I can remember.
Thing is, the reason I picked the book up in the first place was that the title sounded just like I was looking for! I was actually: 1.) Appalled anyone would cut a book up 2.) trying to figure out what on earth I was supposed to do with it!
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My former boss does this on the weekends - and she goes traipsing all over the middle of nowhere to unearth these caches. She says it's a lot of fun.
I guess one of the stipulations for Geo-Caching is that the item has to be placed in a location that's open to the public - no private land. Hence the public library (although when I told my former boss about this, she said that's definitely a "novel" idea!) and WDW.
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Must have been a strange feeling at first to come upon a book without it's insides!
I've read about it, but never done it 
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