Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Fly widget to the moon by Sean and Widget (2/1.5) (Archived) N49° 53.138  W97° 17.836 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 622316  N 5527305 Use waypoint: GC1FG3T Size: Micro    Hidden on 8/22/2008 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                     A very small cache in a park. NANO FTF: meemomydog Dani Was not my idea for the name blame Widget. LOL may be tricky to get out but with some time and effort

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12/20/2008 by Kabuthunk
Whew... I was a bit worried about going after this cache. It had several attempted strikes against me before I got there! Hasn't been found since November... it was snowing out... and it was a nano! Thankfully however, I was able to locate it, officially making this cache the final one required for me to find "Manitoba ABC Soup". Thus... I thank you greatly for the letter "F" . It seems that I'd found virtually all other "F" caches inside the city limits aside from this one, and one a few kilometers South.

It was a fairly long drive from the "Q" cache near Polo Park. Not distance-wise really... more because everyone was slowly driving along at like... 30km/h at the fastest. Usually, I was going idle-speed... and it may well have been faster to park somewhere down Portage and walk . However... my patience paid off, and I eventually found myself near the coordinates. As an added bonus, I was able to park right in front of the park . Glancing into the park, I knew immediately approximately where the cache would be hidden.

At which point, I gotta ask (or complain, anyway)... how come parks nowadays get all the cool stuff, whereas when I was growing up, all we had was splintery old wooden things to sit on and a metal slide that got 8000 degrees celcius in summer (and was a vicious tongue-trap in winter... damn tasty-looking frost). Don't worry... albeit there was much snow on this particular structure, I restrained myself from the urge to lick it .

Strapping on a fresh pair of "instant winter boots", I hopped out of the car and into the park! The snow was fairly deep, and anyone passing by wouldn't have noticed that I had safeway bags over my shoes and tied around my ankles . They may have been a bit curious why I was there to begin with, but I think only one car drove by anyway. The cold and snow also ensured that I would be able to search in relative solitude. It took me a few minutes of hunting, but as I neared ground zero, I quickly analyzed what I could see, and where potential cache hiding locations could be. My first few guesses turned out incorrect, but I soon laid my cold, shivering fingers on the cache .

At which point, for the second time today (and I only went after 3 caches in total!), I dropped it in the snow . My hand quickly dove into the little hole formed on the surface of the snow from where it entered, and came back empty! However, the cache container was hiding just one centimeter deeper into the snow, and I was able to easily retrieve it . That's the last thing I need... to go and lose the last cache I need for ABC Soup . I decided to park myself on a different structure (the red, kinda bent in a semi-circle horozontal bars thing) to sign the log. My hands were a shivering a bit, so it's a bit messy... but it still easily reads the date and my name. Capping it again, I replaced it from whence it came, and hurriedly plunged my hands back into my gloves.

Making my way back to the car, a father and two excited kids burst out of a nearby house, running towards me in general. Not wanting to look suspicious (what with the Safeway bags on my feet and all), I kinda slowed down to see if they would just run past. Nope... as luck would have it, they were parked RIGHT in front of me. However, as they seemed to be loading hockey (or ringette it looked like to me) equipment into the van, I took advantage of their excitement of loading to hop into my car (hopefully) unnoticed. Several seconds later, I was on my way home after a very successful day of caching !

Thanks again for the cache on the interesting (and wish-I-had-it-as-a-kid) structure, and for allowing me to finally claim a find in the Manitoba ABC Soup cache .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and nanomail ball

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