We enjoy doing multi caches.  Sometimes we will skip light pole caches but seldom do we pass on a multi.  We had been in Edmore Michigan and we were headed south on I-90.  Little did we know what evil lay before us.
 
Me:  "There's a multi just ahead we could do."

Wife:  "I'll check it out on the Palm and load the coords."

When we got to the first stage I was nervous because I had been stung by bees twice in the past and sure enough there were bees in the area.  After a short search I was able to see the stage and there were no bees on it.  I got the coords to the second stage and loaded them into the GPS.  At the second stage things got tense.  The coords brought us to a small trashy wooded area.  After a lengthy search we could find nothing.  Finally the wife could take no more.

Wife:  "Are you sure you loaded the coords right?"

Back to the first stage.  Yep, the coords are right.  We went back to the second stage and found the "not here" fake but not the coords for the third stage.  I was getting tired of rummaging around so I sat down on a rock to rest while the wife continued to search through the trash.  My hand bumped into something which moved.  I naturally thought was a vicious animal of some kind so I jumped away.  As I was running to safety, I looked back to see what peril was behind me.  To my surprise I saw the coords for the third stage.  After my heart settled down to a safe range, I called to the wife.
 
Me:  "Here it is."

Wife:  "How on earth did you find that?"

Me:  "I guess its my "never say die" attitude."

I hate it when she looks at me like that.  I can't exactly describe it but its not a "my hero" look.  At the third stage there was nothing again.  Obviously it had been muggled.  I was hot and tired so I found something to lean against and suddenly by some miracle the stage appeared in my hand.

Me:  "I've got it."

Wife:  "What a clever hide.  I can't believe you figured it out."

I ignored her jealous barb and moved on to the fourth stage.  Again there was nothing.  I put my hand against the sign and something poked me.
 
Me:  "I think I have something.  Yes, this is it.  What do you know."

Wife:  "How could such a dimwitted...never mind."

I felt the need to defend the owner against this kind of ridicule.

Me:  "I think you are being unfair.  This owner is actually very creative."

Wife:  "That's what you thought I meant?"

We drove to the final.  Since I had found the first four stages I was feeling a little playful.  

Me:  "You might want to wait in the car.  I'll quick find this and be right back."

Wife:  "Give me that GPS."

She yanked the GPS out of my hands, stormed out of the car, and raced to the cache.  She beat me to ground zero and made the find before I had a chance.  Not very sporting of her I thought.

As we drove away from this very well done multi...

Wife:  "I knew you couldn't find the whole thing without me.  Now, wasn't that fun?"

By nanncyan

The wife and I have been geocaching about three years now.  We enjoy the exercise and great scenery.  We are surprised by the parks that we never knew exsisted right in our own back yard.  We live in Comstock Park Michigan.  We are fortunate to have thousands of caches within a short drive.  We are recently retired and plan to cache around the country.  Who knows maybe we will be in Washington next July for GW VIII!  Our goal is to keep geocaching fun.  I hope our stories relate that to others.

Marvin Altena

Comments(1):

1. Good fun - you're obviously a "natural cacher" - you cannot fail ;-)

   Monday, December 07, 2009 Lucilla