Just one Cornetto....

Kryptonite

Sunday May 1st 2011

Today’s caching adventure took us to the outskirts of Market Bosworth. However on the way to do some caching we got a little distracted along the way….every super hero has its weakness, superman has kryptonite, Achilles has his heel and team Shiltonpig has ice cream. We are afraid to admit it, but the lure of the creamy Mr Whippy is too much for us, and no matter how much we want to go caching the fact of the matter is we cannot resist.

Josh can't take his eyes off it...

Today was no exception, we had driven to the country park here (and very nice it was too)…thanks to Mr Shiltonpig we had also driven to another country park because he had entered the wrong postcode into the sat nav. As soon as we arrived, Josh had spotted the large queue emanating from the Mr Whippy van. We had hardly parked when Josh was jumping out and running as fast he could to get some ice cream, the photos in this blog go some way to showing how much he  like ice cream. Josh is not entirely sure how best to tackle a Mr Whippy ice cream, which is part of the fun in watching him.

Can I put it all in my mouth in one go?

It’s the same with Mr and Mrs Shiltonpig…you could dangle a tub of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food ice cream on a stick and we would just forget about the cares of the world. All good things must come to an end, and while Josh would have happily have eaten another ice cream (and so would Mrs Shiltonpig!!!) it was time to head for some caches. Using the geocaching app we did some random caches in the park. There is a whole string of caches in the wider area, but we only managed a rather pathetic 2 caches….what’s worse is there was a do not find there as well.

Wait till you see the size of the caterpillar!

First up on the other side of the park we had to find a cache near a wooden butterfly….we are not entirely sure why the butterfly is there but was a nice spot for a cache. A little awkward to find a cache here actually, partly due to the long grass…but the energy from the ice cream helped spur us on. We then walked along the duck pond, counting them as we went to the next cache site. Unknown to us it was one of these clever caches, and sad to say we couldn’t find it, though judging by the amount of damage in the area, we were not the only ones!

What! No ice cream!

Finally we walked past a field with a big stone monument in it, its looked like a trig point, but it wasn’t one. We looked everywhere trying to find a footpath or a sneaky shortcut to go and have a look, but no matter what we did we couldn’t find one. Instead we finished the day off with a nice cache but a big old massive humungous tree….and as you are all aware Mr Shiltonpig loves trees like this! Apologies to all our dearest readers for not singing the song, we will correct this now for you..."Just one cornetto, give it to me, you must be joking it cost me £1.70".