Spring is here a bit early!

Sunday for one of Chris' days off we decided since it was going to be such a nice day, up near 70, that we would go on a short road trip to Akron, Ohio where the closest White Castle restaurant is.  I have never been and have been wanting to go so we did!  An hour and a half later we got there and oredered. 

It was VERY yummy!  I got 2 chicken sandwich sliders, onion straws and a drink and Chris got a 12 pack of regular sliders and a drink.  I think we polished off the food within 15 minutes. 

 Afterwards we didn't want to just get back in the car and leave so we found a geocache within the vicinity and conquered that.  I got my geocaching badge for Ohio and we got to enjoy some sunshine all at the same time.

Well, now we were in the geocaching mood so as we drove back we found about 6 geocaches along the road.  The one below was supposed to be super easy but it had us stopped at this rest stop for about 15 minutes looking for it.  We found it on the ground a ways from where it was supposed to be.  It had fallen out of the tree where the coordinates said it was so Chris fashioned a holder for it out of bark and put it back in the tree.

The other one that got our blood pumping was actually across the street from our place in Pittsburgh in the woods behind the Holiday Inn.  We started out going down this STEEP embankment filled with fallen trees, thorns and mud and then figured out to get to the cache we needed to go all the way back up to the top of the hill.  Instead of retracing our steps we decided to hoof it up the hill where we were.  The hill was almost straight up and we needed to grab onto trees and push off in order to get there.  Needless to say Chris made it up the hill first and I had to go up and down in about 5 different places to find a place I could FINALLY get up the hill. (and Chris still had to help me by throwing me a branch and pulling me up)  We finally found the cache as seen below.

 

 After all this hiking we were starving so we decided to go to the strip district and get ingredients for dinner.  We got stuff to make fettuccini alfredo, grilled chicken and brocolli.  While at the Penn Macaroni store we found the biggest jar of Nutella ever! (it was $87!)  Thats a years supply of Nutella right there!

 

Days like these will be coming more plentiful and I am so excited for that!