The first couple of days of this trip we spent escaping Seattle; today, we spent exploring it.

For the first time since we landed, we were able to sleep in a little and take our morning at our own pace. The first item on our agenda for the day didn’t start until 10, so the girls finally got to watch a little TV while we rotated through morning showers and cereal for breakfast. By 9:30, we had our backpack loaded up and were headed out the door. This time, we hopped in the car and headed just a couple of miles north to Groundspeak, also known as Geocaching Headquarters (HQ).

Our tour of the facility really only included a sneak peek of their lobby. Although I was hoping for more, it did not disappoint. In that small space, they had various trackables to log, a photo booth, a phone booth cache, a trackable that has been to the ISS, and other good stuff. The coolest part of this tour was that it completed our Geocaching Trifecta (APE, Original Stash Tribute, and HQ).

From there, we spent the rest of the morning and into the afternoon roaming around that neighborhood completing the HQ GeoTour (GT29) and a few other caches. At the point when the girls were getting pretty fed up with caching, we called it a day and headed over to the Woodland Park Zoo.

…And that’s where the post ends because we didn’t finish it last year.