Weekend Road Trip to Maryland

Tyler had Thursday and Friday off from school making it an extra long weekend, so we decided to take advantage of the days off and go away on a little road trip. We haven't been up to Maryland in about a year, so we were due a trip up there to see our friends and check on our own caches we have hidden. Thursday morning we left in the rain to start our little weekend adventure. Later that night after checking in at the hotel, we met Katherine, Rodney, Dan, Barb, and Fran for dinner. As always it was wonderful seeing everyone. Katherine surprised Tyler by giving him a really cool Lego/book set. They had a lot of fun building different structures with it while we ate and chatted. We were there until they closing time.

The next day was Veteran's/Remembrance Day. We had a couple of caching events lined up, but before attending them we had some work to do. Some of our caches had to have a little tender loving care to get them back in working shape. Before long we lost track of time and just barely made it to the first event, which happened to be a flash mob.  We saw a few people we knew, but it was mostly newer cachers that showed up.

After the event, Dan and Barb asked us if we had lunch plans, so we ended up joining them for lunch at a nearby restaurant. Then we got back in the car and decided to go do some caching. Dan recommended we try and find one of his. He said Tyler would really like it. He was right. It was really cute! In fact, we all loved it. Then we headed down to North Beach Chesapeake where we did some more recommended caches hidden by our friends, Sue and Mark. The caches were hidden on a beautiful new the "Rails to Trails". It was chilly, but the views were definitely worth the walk.

It was starting to get dark, so we got back in the car and headed towards the location of the next caching event. The event was a Meet and Greet at the Double T Diner which is famous for their incredible selection of desserts. After locating the diner, we still had an hour or more left so we went to the mall to get Tyler a clean shirt since we only packed two with us and both were quite dirty. At this time, we decided to stay an extra night. After getting what we needed we went back to the diner and had quite the nice surprise! Richey and Jess showed up followed by Glen and his girlfriend, Sherri. We shared a table with them and had a lot of fun catching up. It was just like old times.

There was another caching event but it wasn't until much later and we were already tired. So we went back to the hotel for the remainder of the night. The following day we continued on with our geocaching maintenance of our own caches. It was a lot of fun being in our old neighborhood again; a lot of great memories. Along the way we stopped and found the new caches; it was a very productive day. Later on we met up with Katherine, Rodney, Dan and Barb for dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants called Ledo's for one last time before heading back home the next day. We made plans to see Katherine and Rodney in a few weeks time when they come down our way. Our drive back to Virginia also included a few stops to get some Japanese groceries at some really cool Asian stores. Overall, it was a fantastic weekend. We were very happy to see our good friends again.