What a great day! In honor of Father's Day, we wanted to go out to brunch. Traverse City has numerous very nice brunch providers who advertise heavily and require reservations. On Mother's Day, for instance, we had a wonderful brunch on Old Mission Peninsula at the Bowery. But this time, we wanted to spend the day geo-caching in the Arcadia/Bear Lake area, so we headed for one of our favorite restaurants, The Dinghy, in Frankfort. On the way, we stopped off at a small cemetery where we had previously failed to find a cache. This time we were successful!
We got to Dinghy's at 9:30 a.m. and discovered that they didn't open til 10. But luckily, there's a nice park across the street which had a cache in it. (Dick had loaded all of the area caches into his Palm and his GPS in preparation for our adventure.) So we found our second cache before breakfast. Brunch at Dinghy's is some kind of wonderful experience! Everything you could possibly think of for breakfast is provided, and just when you think your plate is loaded, and you have everything you want, a lady comes around with a tray and says, "Would you like a hot apple fritter?" Well, heck yes! At this point, that sounds like health food!
What followed was a day of geo-caching - we found a total of 7, and only got lost twice. Even with maps and a GPS, it is possible to get lost in a maze of two-tracks. The day was perfect - 70 degrees, blue sky and sunshine, and we were doing our favorite thing - getting lost in the woods.
Around 4:30 we headed for Mother's house, stopping at Moomer's first so we could take Mom a milkshake. We had a lovely visit with Mother, who seems to think that she's beginning to look old. We brought her some lollies to have on hand when Dylan visits in a couple of weeks, and some microwave dinners to try.
Back at home, Dick logged all of our finds (not an easy task) and we re-lived our adventures. Happy Father's Day indeed.
