It was going to be a high number caching day, since we were staying in the same area. Ha! Our first effort was to head to an ATM to get more cash to be going on with. We stopped at a cache in between: and looked and looked, no luck. Then at the ATM Rich got in one of his dithery moods. Is this it? It's not the same name, is that the address? Get out of the car, dude, and go check. No, it's better to sit in the car and fret than to walk over to check. Yes, it was: but then he couldn't get cash out of it. We were partway out of the parking lot when he realized he'd been trying the wrong card. Slammed into reverse and almost had an accident. Then we were muggled out of a couple of caches, and finally decided to change our luck and go down to the park where we would finish tonight and work back toward town.

There's a bit of a hike to go to the ammonite fossil. We finally got this first cache at 10:10 (after a 9 AM start.) Then we explored the rest of the park. We found the mark that marks the geographical center of Tennessee and visited the nature center. There we met a couple more cachers who would be collaborators for the collaboration challenge, and a couple from Germany. We started working our way back into town. There was an earth cache at a spring, where we ran into a woman we met in Washington at the tunnel last year. On up into downtown Murfreesboro, more collaborators, including someone from Sacramento.

We stopped back at the motel before going to lunch, which I'd planned for the nearby Cracker Barrel. Rich forgot where it was and thought we were going to one where we missed a cache in the morning, and the argument was loud and stupid. Then when we went into the CB, we were greeted with a nice So'th'n accent: I kind of wondered if the guy was part of the Disney tour!

Then we toured the Stones River Battlefield. This is a Civil War site, and very interesting. I hadn't heard of it before, but it was a major location. We met some other cachers on the auto tour, also taking a break from caching.

In the bathroom I heard a Nana telling her granddaughter that she never touches the toilet handle, but flushes it with her feet. Thanks a lot, lady. Then she was spraying the girl with a germicide: a little is a good idea, but this woman was obsessed.

A couple more caches, then there was the Friday Night Meet-n-Greet. Rich got in line for the registration packet and I went over to turn in Travel Bugs and discovered a lot of car decals. It turned out they won't give us our shirts till tomorrow (disorganized!!) but we did get the geocoins.

We had stopped for KFC to take to the park, so we ate, and were still sitting under the pavilion when the huge shower started. We talked to a lot of people, then back to the room. GeoWoodstock tomorrow!!

Mustard Seed school was mentioned in USA today.

Heh. I knew this would happen. Call it "0bamanfreude." Yes, I'm taking some joy in other's distress: might as well share the misery.