Spring in the air, sunshine and happy people all around (
) made us want to go Easter-geocaching. So we decided to go to Skinnskatteberg (where there are surprisingly many caches in a very small area 
). We packed food, snacks and beverages, our kids and ourselves into the geo-bus and took off towards Köping (aiming for road 250, and all of the geocaches we could find 
)
Kids and parents were all happy-happy-joy-joy, jumping out of the car with great speed (and some with great ease ). By lunch time we reached Skinnskatteberg, found ourselves a nice parking space next to a lake and ate our lunch. After this we decided to try to reach a cache that would require some walking: Kroksudden. After 50 meters all but one gave up the quest - it was just to hard (especially for the kids, but also for the mother-youngest-child-package ) walking in the snow. Markus went on, but gave up after a while, he just couldn't find the cache!! On his way back to the car he chose between a heart attack (walking in knee deep snow) and the risk of drowning in the ice cold water (if the ice on the lake would have given up) - and chose the risk of drowning.
Whilst waiting for Markus, me and the kids pretended to be pirates (and I got the fancy name: Kapten Sur-Ulla) and on our way back to the car, I got stuck, fell and couldn't get up (snow is really cold when you get to sit in it, not being able to get up, did you know that? 
)
So... we got a bit wet and cold, but we didn't want to give up anyway - so we went on into Skinnskatteberg to log a few more caches. And when we came home, we had found 19 caches - which is our new personal best (... number of geocaches in a day) 
But the day was not over yet - I was sent out to hide two new caches, this time in Västerås. But you know: you're not very invisible when you're dressed like a forest hugging lunatic with bad connections in the fashion industry and a mysterious genetical colour blindness
Anyway: the caches were hidden in ode to my father (after we found that there were a few holes in the geocache coverage in Västerås that coincided with places strongly connected to his life)
All was well up to this point. But going back home I accidently killed Bambi (or his mother) 
just a few hundred meters away from our house
This is what our car looks like today:
Five important meetings in Stockholm this upcoming week - which means I have to take the bus, then the train and then the subway to reach work (which means 4.5-5.5 hours of commuting per day) instead of working-from-home-due-to-problems-with-my-car. Come friday, I don't think I will be in a "happy-happy-joy-joy" mood anymore. But perhaps a bit of geocaching on saturday or sunday might cheer me up? Keep the new caches coming, if only to save one persons sanity