GC28DH1 So Long, and Thanks for All the Cache!
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By: dani_carriere @ | Hide Date: 26/06/2010 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 53.419 W97° 08.625 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
     

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We will be sitting at the back of the restaurant area. The reservation is under both Danielle and MBGA and the staff will know where we are. If you're new and haven't been to many events, don't be shy, c'mon over. There's going to be cake!

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This may come as a surprise to some of you, but we are losing two of our more well-known and well-travelled cachers in July as they move east to Ottawa and greener pastures.

Take this opportunity to come out to say goodbye and good luck to Junglehair and Tromelin as they start a new life in the nation's capital. Share some stories about their caching exploits and join in a toast to our friends.

Reservations have been made under "Manitoba Geocaching" at the Elephant and Castle Pub and Restaurant in the Delta Hotel, 350 St. Mary Avenue in downtown Winnipeg at 7:00PM.

Junglehair is a Charter Member of Groundspeak and has been geocaching since March, 2002. She has accumulated over 5,000 cache finds and has hidden 30 caches in Manitoba, New York State and New Zealand. She is a respected member of the Manitoba Geocaching community and has served several years on the MBGA executive, and had served as the President of NYGO (New York Geocaching Organization). She has introduced caching to many people including her mother, known to us as The Old Bat.

Tromelin came to us from La Belle Province and is currently serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. He has been caching for almost 4 years and has found over 3,400 caches world wide. He has hidden 7 geocaches, many of which are in Assiniboine Park and Forest, including one earth cache in New Zealand. He has just returned from a 6 month deployment in Sudan and is being transferred to the Ottawa region. Tromelin is a avid caver and one of our more physical cachers.

26/06/2010 By Kabutroid
Looks like I'm a bit late in logging this one. But... I left the event somewhat late, and I had several other caches to log prior to this one as well. As those who know me will know, this isn't a fast process for me . In either case, I had left immediately from leaving a gathering with some friends waaaay off on the West side of the city, and booked it down over to here. Thankfully, the timing worked out fairly nicely, so there was very little overlap... but I was still one of the last people to show up. It doesn't appear that I missed anything though.

Now, I've never actually BEEN to the Elephant and Castle... although I've been very close to it at one point when I was solving the extremely nearby Tardis cache. At the time however, I was parked at a friends place, and they knew the area... I was just going with the flow at the time. However, today not only was I tasked with re-finding the place, but also finding parking over here too. And preferably fairly close (even more preferably free ), since there had been an absolutely massive downpour of rain less than an hour ago. It was still somewhat drizzling the tail-end of it. But as luck would have it (perhaps as a repayment for the DNF I had gotten on my last cache attempt), I managed to find free parking on the street, less than a block from the pub! SWEET! Hopping across the street, I quickly found my way inside the pub. Being pointed in the direction of the gathering, I was waved over by Dani and offered I think the last empty seat at the table, onto which I promptly put a chainmail ball for the event

Man, it's nice to have seen all you guys again. I've unfortunately been unable to make it out to any events for the past while... they're either way out of town when I don't have the entire day to spare, or on a day when I've got some other obligations happening at the exact same time. But I try... keep an eye out for me at other events.

If I remember, I'll wear chainmail to the next one .

The timing worked out well, since shortly after I arrived the cake was brought out, and we got speeches of sorts from Dani, Junglehair, and... that's right... Tromelin! I do honestly think that this is the very first time I've heard his voice! Cool accent by the way . Also, probably ridiculously late, but congrats on meeting eachother. I actually had no idea until this event! But again... missed out on too many events as of late.

In either case, after some cake, much laughing and chatter ensued. It wasn't that long before a group of us decided to duck out of the place (was getting pretty hot in there anyway) to go tackle the nearby Fifteen Degrees cache. After the successful find there, we returned to the pub to find that some of the people had left, but otherwise it was still pretty active. There was much chatter, during which I let a few people know of the new puzzle cache I had planned in my head (prepare Dani... prepare). Finally, with the activity dying down and other people starting to leave, I figured it was time to do the same.

It was nice to see Junglehair and Tromelin one last time before they headed out. And don't worry... I've mental noted that third room in your new place should I be in the area .

16/05/2010 By Kabutroid
Awww... we're losing you guys? Well, I'll try my best to make it out to this event. Been forever since I've been to events in general!