The Max Report - Caching in Lansing

Hi, Max here. I'm almost eight months old (tomorrow) and to celebrate, Mom took me caching. She says she's celebrating 10 years of geocaching but I just know its really because of my 8 months birthday.

Anyway, we took off yesterday morning and went to a place called Lansing. Mom said I was a bit naughty along the way because I got out of my car box while she was driving. I had to sit down in the middle between the two front seats for a while until Mom found a safe place to stop and put me back in. She closed the zipper all the way after that for a while so I couldn't see out. She hopes I learned my lesson!

We found 33 of those things called caches. Sometimes Mom made me stay in the car because the cache was right by where she parked. But sometimes she took me with her. I got lots of walk time! The best walk was on this path where there were lots of interesting things to sniff out, and I saw frogs and snakes and ducks. I wanted to go swimming in the creek but Mom said I'd get too smelly. She told me that "this" (as in the nice walk along a nice path) is what caching is all about.

We ended up at the end of the day not at home, but at a place called a Red Roof Inn. Mom says they like having dogs there. When we got there, she pulled my big box from home out of the back of the car! I wondered why she took it from the living room. Now I know. Anyway, she put it in the bathroom at the hotel, and put out my food and water. I was pretty tired so just laid around most of the evening. But once Mom wanted to go to bed, that's when I decided it was play time. Mom was going to let me try sleeping outside of my box, but after a while of my playtime she decided it was the box after all.

Maybe because my box was closer to where Mom was sleeping, but she heard me whine a lot quicker than she does at home. She took me outside about 5 a.m. but I wasn't happy and she really didn't get back to sleep too much after that.

She says we have a busy day today. We get to go to something called a 10 Years! event. Well she gets to go anyway. I probably can't go in so will have to wait in the car. She promises she won't stay inside very long though. Then we get to drive back home. 'Nuff said. Now that I'm out of the box, I'm happily being lazy at Mom's feet, just like usual.