Scioto Banks and "Oh Rats!" - 7/12/11

I was so excited to learn about "Oh rats!" today I had a little accident. :( But, as KBLAST promised, we were going to get it tonight! However, we had something else to do first.

KBLAST had already planned to go after Scioto Banks today because he was meeting some friends to fix some of the late stages later tonight. So he went during his break to work on it. He wasn't going to be able to take all day because he had to get back to work at some point, but he let me search for a while. Here I am at stage 1. One of these days I'll learn where to look for these high terrain challenges!!!

Here I am at stage 2 waiting for KBLAST to find it. Such a pretty flower! Sometimes it's nice to stop and smell the roses... er... daisies... er.... weeds... er... smell whatever this was.

Anyway, he was able to finish this cache right after work, then went to a different cache (one that he helps maintain) and that cache was TOTALLY broken and is in such bad shape it's going to be archived. Glad I didn't even look for that one!!!

As he finished up, I was chittering and chattering because he had promised we'd make it out! It was almost dark, but we were not too far away, so we headed there. Sorry I missed you, Sweetfyre! It would have been great to meet you!

Got to GZ and immediately started looking anywhere that looked like a good hiding spot. All of the logs so far (thanks, by the way!) said that it wasn't far from GZ and that the coordinates were good, but I could NOT find the cache! HOWEVER, I DID stumble across one of the friends I think the CO was talking about:

This guy just showed up while I was searching. He sort of jumped out at me! Or was it a she? I don't know because I kept trying to talk to it, but it would NOT respond!!! HOW RUDE!!! I was so excited to make a new friend, but I'm wondering if this guy was hamster racist, or classist, or just plain mean.

Anyway, I never did find it and it was getting dark. I'm excited for KBLAST, though, because this was apparently his 1650th cache! Congrats, KBLAST! I hope some day I can join you and have found a lot of caches like that, too. And a BIG SUPER DEE DUPER thanks to VTX88 for creating a special cache just for me... I hope some day I can come back here (when I've honed my geosenses and gotten over the snubbing I received) and make this find!!!