Our First Ever “First to Find”

The story behind our first ever first to find (FTF) is actually ironic and funny. It came back in December when I was home from school for winter break. Erin was visiting me on this particular weekend because it was my annual work Christmas Party and I wanted to bring her along since I was allowed to bring a guest. Now, I am about to get off topic a little here, but it will all tie in I promise. Anyways, Erin tends to bring me good luck and at our party my work was doing a present giveaway and the way to win was to be drawn from a hat. She claimed I was going to win if she was there. It just so happened on the first drawing I did win a tool set and a real nice set of LED flashlights ideal for geocaching. That was not it. They did a second drawing for much bigger prizes and guess who won? Yes, I won an iPod touch in that round. I could not believe it. Now I call Erin my good luck charm. Now back to the FTF story. We just got back to my house from the Christmas party and my dad begins telling me about a cache that was just posted right by our house. How nice, it was dark and I just won LED flashlights. See the irony in this one? Someone definitely knew something that I did not that night. So we headed out to get the cache right then at about midnight. I forgot to mention it was sleeting out too pretty good at this time as well. Here we are with about a 500 foot walk to a cache in sleet and darkness. The flashlights definitely came in handy. I ended up finding it before everyone else to cap off a great night overall. That is definitely a night I will never forget. We have since to land an FTF, but hope to sometime soon.