Sunday at the Huntington

Monday January 3rd 2005 01:51 PM PST

We never turn down an offer to go to Tea at the Huntington in the rain. I don't know exactly what it is about the Tea room, but its that much better when its raining. I did a quick search on GeoCaching.com before we left just to see if there were any caches in the Garden. Well sure enough there are a couple, so i popped the coords into my etrex and we headed off. The one cache that i was interested in was a set of 4 virtual cache locations. Instead of hiding a box with goodies in it, the location itself is special. So you have to find what is at each location and then email your answers to the cache creator. So before we even left i already had an idea what each location was. [partial geocache spoiler] So we passed the first location on the way from our car to the Tea Room. Then looking at the map and waypoints, i figured the what the other 3 locations were. I was only slightly off with the 2nd waypoint. When we started from the first waypoint to the Tea Room, i thought that the 2nd waypoint was the Two Lion's guarding the entrance to the Japaneese Garden. As we got closer to the Tea Room, i started to laugh because the 2nd waypoint actually was the Lion's outside the Tea Room. :) Funny that the place we were going all along was one of the locations on the cache hunt.

So i won't say exactly what the other 3 waypoints are, but i will say that we walk by all of them every time we go to the Huntington. Now thinking about it, i think i might make my own set of coords of more less traveled spots on the Huntington Grounds.