Child Imai Traffic Park Geocache

Today I went out with Megumi to the Child Imai Traffic Park about 5km from home. It was a very hot and very humid day so whenever we stopped, the sweat started pouring. Riding keeps the sweat from pouring so it's best not to stop in this kind of weather. 

We went to this great park that is only for kids; it is designed like a driver's school with lights, crossing signals, traffic lights, bridges, roundabouts, intersections and more. The children ride rented vehicles around the area (bikes, little cars, etc.) and practice following traffic rules. There is even a monorail that runs through the park, and a place to play on swings. It's a great little park.

There is a geocache here. We were using my new garmin oregon 450, and Megumi's iPod Touch with her new external GPS device. Both arrived this morning so we wanted to test them out. At first we found an old rusted zippo lighter, but that wasn't it. Then we found some old, rusted tools. Nope. Not those either. Then we looked and looked and got really dirty feeling under things, behind things, etc. It was pretty disgusting.

We had gotten to the point where both of our GPS devices said we were at 0m from the cache, but we just couldn't find it! Then Megumi was able to get a street view, and suddenly we knew exactly where it was. 

This is what was in the geocache. If you ever wondered what geocaching is all about, check out http://www.geocaching.com for a great site that people all over the globe use to find and hide treasures around the world.