Saving Snow

August 18th, 2012 - It was a warm and sunny day (not a dark and stormy night).  It was finally the moment we had been waiting for. We had found all seven dwarves.  Our scouting parties had been successful and we had gotten the necessary codes to fill in the blanks for our coordinates to where Snow White was being held captive by the Evil Queen.  Actually one code was MIA, but I think that was on purpose -- to make us think a little harder. 

Saving Snow White

Once we plugged in the coordinates in our handy dandy GPS gadgets and got the directions to the "prison" we could see we were going to a very familiar place.  We'd been here for about four other caches.  We were ready!  We picked what we thought was the logical path to go down.  We headed down it chatting!  We were close! About 600 feet away!  Walking, walking, walking.  Wait a minute!  Now we're 1/10 of a mile away?  What?  We walked up and down the path once.  Twice.  Back and forth.  We couldn't seem to get any closer.  Was this a wicked enchantment put on our GPS by the Evil Queen?!?  The GPS kept bouncing and telling us we were close, but no cigar. 

There she is!

The ensourceled stump

Finally it seemed as though we were going to have to do some heavy bushwhacking in order to save Snow.  Hang on!  I pulled out the GPS and looked at the description, "About 10 feet off the path."  Okay, that does NOT jive with what is going on here.  Maybe we got the coordinates wrong!  I looked at them again -- nope they're right. Then my son says, "That's an 8."  I said, "No, it's a B."  He replies, "No it's not, it's an 8."  Well, darned if he wasn't right!  My poor eyes were not seeing the number 8, they were seeing a very clear letter B and as such I had filled in that part of the coordinate puzzle with the corresponding number for "B" rather than an 8.  Once we cleared up that misunderstanding, a short walk and the cache hiding place was pretty clear.  We found it easily.  And so to end this happy tale, Snow is once again FREE!  Huzzah to the scouting party!  Huzzah to her rescuers!  And they all lived happily ever after!!  The End!!