June 4, 2012

It was cool this morning and we sat outside to drink our coffee by the lake.  I worked the Sunday crossword puzzle.  Three ducks slept overnight at our camp and walked around like they had rented it. We stayed around camp most of the morning and then went to Lowes and then back to Kim and Steve’s house. They took us to Belle Isle Brewpub and then to the Republic Gastropub near where Steve works.  I called Coop Brewery to ask if they had a tour.  They said that Oklahoma law doesn’t allow them to serve their beer on premises but we could come in and they would give us a tour.  They will be moving to a bigger location and one of  the owners of a Houston microbrewery will be coming to help them with the details.

Kim wanted us to go to the Royal Bavaria in Moore, Oklahoma so we drove there.  This was a German restaurant with a brewpub.  They had really good, fresh baked pretzels.  We went to a Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives place for dinner.  It is another German restaurant.  The schnitzel and bratwurst were really good.  Steve drove us back by his workplace to show us the garden that the employees planted.  This garden is nearly a whole block and is planted in raised beds.

We found six geocaches today.  Steve is a natural at finding them.  Some of them were hidden very ingeniously.  One was in a very small container as you can tell by the one in Steve’s hand. One was behind a gas pipeline warning sign and one was under the bottom skirt of a light pole.  Jim crawled into roses bushes on another one.  The one that was behind an electric junction box used magnets to hold an electric plate in place and it looked like it was park of the box.  I think we are beginning to get an idea of how the caches are hidden which will make finding them easier for us. Back at Steve and Kim’s we had dessert and watched the new episode of Diner, Drive-Ins and Dives.