Free Fun Friday

Welcome to the first edition of 'Free Fun Friday'. Here we hope to bring you some great FREE fun ideas, for the family and for mums alone. Today's 'Free Fun Friday' idea is.......drum roll please......a whole family fun activity........... Geocatching!! 

The three of us are always up for an adventure in the great outdoors, whether it's the beach, the woods or the lovely countryside around us. When a few months back we stumbled across the idea of geocaching we just HAD to give it a go. What in God's name is Grocaching I hear you ask? : Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. Sounds great doesn't it!

We downlaoded the app  from here, found a geo catch nearest to our house and got ready to set out to find it! 

Dad and I were very excited about at the prospect of a real life treasure hunt, we both loved them as kids! However...we weren't convinced DS (Darling Son) would share our enthuaism....we needed to step this treasure hunt up a notch. 

Out comes good old reliable pintrest, where I found super ideas. I loved the kids treasure hunts ideas I found so I mixed and matched a few ideas and Ahoy there Maties to a super piriate loving treasure hunt. Similar one found here.

Off to a near by woods we headed, armed with a checklist of items we needed to find,a telescope, a compass,  a sword, welliies, a crayon, the geo caching app and bucket loads of enthuasism!

Having found the geo cach quite easily we concenrtated on ticking off our treasure hunt requirements, after a great walk in the woods, lots of games and make believe we emerged with our treasure! The only thing left was to bury it!

Off to the beach to bury the treasure! A big hole was dug and in went the treasure (all bar two sticks), covered it back over, got the sticks and DS very proudly placed them as 'X' marks the spot!!

This was a super fun afternoon of adventure. I was so glad we had made it fun for all three of us. The geocaching app is great for adults and the pirate themed worked briliant for our son. And the best thing of all....it was completely FREE!! We have since gone on many more geo catching adventurous both at home in Cork and around the country. So heres to many more geocach pirate adventures.

Why don't you give it a go this long weekend? 'Don the wellie boots and pirate eye patch and off you go! If you do we would love to hear how it goes! 

'X' marks the spot of the buried treasure 

If your around the Cork area and feeling like a little more refined 'Free Fun' this weekend be sure to cheek out The John Saul Picnic and Vintage Fair at the Castlemartyr Resort. Kids are free as is parking, adults are €5, but I believe proceeds go to a local charity. It's on Bank Holiday Monday and if last year's is anything to go by, we are in for a treat. It's a super family day out. We shall be there, picnic at the ready, if you are there be sure to give a wave and say hi. 

Have  a great weekend everyone xxxxx

Love Kerri and Orla xx