Madcap Mensa Weekend III
Saturday morning, I woke up feeling exhausted (I have a dreadful inability to wake up late if I stay up late), went to breakfast, then John and Mary Ann took me out on a geocaching expedition (Terri was supposed to come, but they assumed she was still asleep and didn't call her room). In geocaching someone posts to the geocaching.com site, giving directions to a hidden cache; using GPS units, players find caches, then take something out, replace it with a new trinket, that sort of thing.
In this case, John had a tiny airplane taken from Ft. Walton Beach, and we went to a park to put it in one cache ... after about fifteen minutes and some unentertaining scrounging through brambles, Mary Ann spotted some fragments taken from the cache: It had been removed. So we drove to another cache, which Mary Ann spotted under a holly bush, then returned home.
Afternoon was a blast: First, my friends David and Zarya showed up. Then Mensans Arthur and Vera had their wedding (since I'd forgotten about it when I packed, I'm fortunate they weren't fussy about formal dress!). Then one of those present- swap things where you pick a gift, then the next person has the option to swap this gift for yours ... I wasn't participating, but with 40 or so people, it was pretty entertaining to watch the swapping. Presents ranged from hand puppets to Jim Beam.
Then came the Blonde Bowl.