{"id":786,"date":"2012-01-16T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=786"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:54:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:54:33","slug":"muggles-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Muggles No More!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So why is Sweetie so danged happy? Look at her. She&#8217;s positively giddy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6548472459\/\" title=\"IMG_6563 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6563\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6548472459_9235373b97-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it is because she is missing out on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">geocaching<\/a> adventure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5070532522\/\" title=\"20101010_73 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101010_73\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/5070532522_23f71b3281-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll go geocaching with me, and she is good at it. But she doesn&#8217;t mind missing an outing. <\/p>\n<p>Even when I took these ladies geocaching. I mean they look nice but they just couldn&#8217;t get into it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4685235914\/\" title=\"Cowboy's Cheerleaders by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cowboy's Cheerleaders\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4685235914_e44cc9fb99-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>(No I didn&#8217;t really take them geocaching, but I could tell they wanted me to ask them to go.)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t really dressed for it either. I found a couple other people to go geocaching with me. Smarter than the cheerleaders, and really, better looking also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6704636741\/\" title=\"Geocaching Jonni and Dianne by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geocaching Jonni and Dianne\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6704636741_85e4e0bf30-300x204.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My &nbsp;friend Jonni of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsbaloney.com\/\">That&#8217;s Baloney<\/a> on the right and her neighbor Diane, on the left. I&#8217;ll take them geocaching over Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders any day. Jonni is also one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therhok.com\/\">Real Housewives of Oklahoma<\/a>&nbsp;(&#8220;RHOK&#8221;) who are a hoot. Check them out. They brought their great kids Michael and John. None of them had ever been geocaching before. So that made them &#8220;Muggles.&#8221; Muggles are what geocachers call non-geocachers. &nbsp;It&#8217;s from the Harry Potter books where muggles are just regular non-wizard people.<\/p>\n<p>My mission Sunday was to lead Jonni, Diane, and their kids away from being muggles to the salvation of being &nbsp;geocachers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6704540999\/\" title=\"IMG_7655 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7655\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6704540999_9fca67b1d7-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the ever stylish Jonni had all the right clothes and accessories. Note the led lights on her ball cap and the carabiners. Check out the footwear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6704535905\/\" title=\"IMG_7654 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7654\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6704535905_08fa611d30-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neiman Marcus I think, their geocaching collection. That&#8217;s where Jonni gets her snuggies. But keep that on the &#8220;down low&#8221; she doesn&#8217;t want people to think she is putting on airs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6704553537\/\" title=\"IMG_7658 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7658\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6704553537_000a0e0238-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everybody took a turn with the GPSr going from cache to cache at the Ray Harrell Nature Park in Broken Arrow. Above Michael is putting back together a cache we found. Below is his mom, running on ahead looking for the next one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6704560139\/\" title=\"IMG_7660 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7660\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6704560139_9674ae5791-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course when we found it it was like &#8220;take a picture of my cache.&#8221; OK J. We got it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6704564277\/\" title=\"IMG_7661 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7661\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6704564277_223e07d96d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kids had a good time exchanging trinkets and signing the logs. You may wonder where SPB is? Well, he and I have found over 1100 so he&#8217;s a little jaded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6704576345\/\" title=\"IMG_7664 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7664\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6704576345_c0b6b2eba7-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyways Jonni, Diane, and their kids are no longer muggles! Welcome them into the fold. Four more saved! That is how&nbsp;evangalism is done, one person at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Jonni&#8217;s version of the day is posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therhok.com\/2012\/01\/treasure-hunters-geocaching.html\"><b>RHOK<\/b><\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a muggle and are tired of the shame and want to find out how to not be a muggle any more or just want to find out more about geocaching check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogis-den.com\/2010\/07\/geocaching-101.html\"><b>Geocaching 101<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why is Sweetie so danged happy? Look at her. She&#8217;s positively giddy. I think it is because she is missing out on a geocaching adventure. She&#8217;ll go geocaching with me, and she is good at it. But she doesn&#8217;t mind missing an outing. Even when I took these ladies geocaching. 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