Free Adventures in Odyssey episodes

I have posted a couple of articles on this blog about Adventures in Odyssey. For the people who read this blog, I am posting a link to a website that has free episodes of  Adventures in Odyssey. http://whitsendblog.org/category/free-episodes/ If you visit this website, I recomend the episodes, "Snow Day" and "The Jokes On You". If you enjoy the episodes, you can get more of them easily at www.whitsend.org/cdsdvds/ . I have enjoyed AIO immensly and have every album that they have made so far. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Geocaches

Today I found out about the coolest thing. There are caches (containers that contain items of some kind) hidden all over the place. They are of different sizes and of different difficulty to find. There is one that I heard of that you have to dive for in the sea. My family and I went out to the closest and easiest geocache in our area and found it almost instantly, taking no less than 5 minutes to find it. At the website, they have directions for the general area in which the geocaches are hidden. Their website called http://www.geocaching.com/ . You can use a special GPS system to find it (which is much easier than a blind search) or try to find it on your own if it is in an easy enough location (like the one we found today). When you find the cache, you are allowed to take one of the items that are inside but you have to replace the item with something of equal or greater value. We took a bouncy ball from inside it and replaced it with a dollar coin. You also have to update the log book inside the cache to show that you found it. they have special prizes to the people who find the new geocaches first. There are currently 1,384,446 active geocaches in the world. We are going to start making it a weekend activity. It is very fun and something that I would recomend for a summer activity.

AIO contest

I have mentioned before that I am a big fan of Adventures in Odyssey. Anyone else who is interested can enter a new contest that Focus on the Family is doing. They are seeing who can make the best Odyssey Dollar and send it in(go to aiowiki.com to learn more. Just look in the red news section at the bottom of the page.)The finalists get an Odyssey poster and the winners get album #54, "Clanging Symbols and the Meaning of God's Love" a couple of months before it is available to the public. I am so excited!