Meet the "Foreigners"!? (Auckland) Rothesay Bay, North Island, New Zealand
By Gr8dad and the Aeronauts on 27-Sep-08. Waypoint GC1FA3N

As there are still four people watching this event could you all go and check your geocoin stashs to see if there is a United World geocoin hiding in there. It was suppossed to travel from me to Michagin USA as a friendship trade and is still sitting in this event cache over a month later ! Please pass the message on to anyone else who attended the event who you think may have picked it up and not logged it.

Time to put this one to bed!!
Thanks again to all who attended and made this event a success!
Gr8dad

#1001.Great fun to catch up; loads of cream cakes to eat; and a chance to celebrate 1000 finds - hurrah! Thanks for organising it Gr8dad one and all.

[This entry was edited by St. Ouens on Saturday, May 09, 2009 at 8:49:17 PM.]

Took a quick video when i walked in, on the way to da wedding...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOK7GDOWr4

Hi, Had a great time here. Glad to see so many cachers.

Good to catch up with everyone, new and old again. Thanks Gr8dad and co for putting on such a good event. Thanks too, to KiwiGary for bringing Meg the dog, who entertained our son for ages!

My first logged event. Went with mum and dad (adnshe)
I liked playing with meg the dog.

Dropped in 'A Bloody Good Drop 4/4'

Dropped in the TBs that I grabbed off Zork at the event.

Enjoyed this event, thanks to the Air Scouts and the organisers of this event. I didn't know there was such a thing as Air Scouts. We travelled up from Rotorua stopping for a few caches on the way!! arrived a little late due to the GPS taking us off and on to the Motorway. I should have looked at where the Go To was taking us, I could have navigated from memory an awful lot quicker, spent most of my life on the North Shore. Great to meet up with everyone again. Met some new faces and enjoyed chatting with everyone. The Boss was a celebrity at this event, he had lots and lots of attention, he looked really tuckered out the next day!! It was really good to hear some great caching stories. Thanks. Great Fun.

Just a quick visit good to catch up with The Pud Great venue and thanks to the Cubs and Scouts

Thanks Gr8dad and the Aeronauts. Had a lovely time putting faces to names, meeting new (especially Lucy of Greenblat) and catching up with not so new cachers. Had no trouble finding this one - all others done today had me going round in circles as GPSr not getting good signal.

Great gathering - good to meet some familiar and new faces. Thanks team for organising the event!

Sniffed this out with my Boss & Xmuggle. GenCuster signed the log for me but it was my own paw-mark. Thanks. Enjoyed being slipped a bit of food and meeting other caching-canine-companions. And being a photographic model!

dropt in for a while after finding first cash outside, spoke to a a couple of people, didnt know anyone,signed the logsheet, thanks! (bunch of very unusual peole it seamed)--Fran from Tunisia.

Wow! This was fun. Apologising for arriving late which I will blame on my GPS taking me off motorway and then back on motorway at same spot with no further exits until Silverdale, so back down East Coast Highway to Browns Bay... Or maybe, me being a foreigner to Auckland, I should have checked first instead of relying on a 'go to'.

So I missed francis.m.zahn - sorry, as I had said that I would be there. Also now I realise that a cache was there too. Sigh... So I pinched a bit of food, met some old and new friends, entertained (and eventually fed) Boss. Chatted for ages. Many thanks for the excellent facilities and organisation. Always enjoy events! Picked up some TBs to move to the South Island and showed my new coins.

Big thanks to GR8 DAD for a very sucessful event. Nice to meet up with old and new friends. Great venue too.

A BIG thanks to all who attended and made this event a success. Thanks also for the donations - that will surely help with the upkeep of our hall.

Thanks to one and all who attended to make this a great event. We hope the "Foreigners" feel welcome here, and we wish them all the best with their future plans.

Just a reminder to all who have dropped or taken Tb's to please log them, in or out.

Best Regards
Team Gr8dad

We were pretty sure where the event was, because we had done a cache very close to where the BBQ was set-up a few weeks back. So it was a quick find with our adopted dog for a month “Megâ€

We all had a great time catching with old friends and new ones as well, great to catch with Andrew and Heidi again from Team Crystal Fairy and good luck for the future guys. Hopefully see you soon back here soon...

Congrats to St Owens on the 1000 finds, wow that’s a great milestone Mark.

Also great meet some very new cachers, one Francis (I think) hadn’t even found one cache yet (so very new indeed). Also great to see some event attendees.

Thanks to all the kids for looking after Meg, she was asleep the whole way home after all her running around.

Big thanks to Gr8dad and the Aeronauts for setting up the great event, and letting us use the halls.

Took: Gowithblue Lock3

Nice to the crowd . . . . congrats to St Ouens! 1000! WOW!

Nice to meet the "foreigners" too . . . . hope they'll place some caches as well as finding the best of the old ones.

Thanks for organising this event for us all.

Another nice opportunity to catch up with familiar faces and meet some new ones.
Hope the "Foreigners" enjoyed there time in NZ.
Finally there were no muggles at the other cache spot and it was an easy find.
Thanks for organizing Gr8dad.
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1113)

Nice to catch up with familiar faces, put faces to some familiar names, and meet some new cachers. Thanks to Gr8dad and the Aeronauts for organising a fine event.

A very well organised event, thanks to the Gr8tdad & Aeronauts teams. Threatened to rain, but only for a minute. Dropped off a couple of travellers for others to be involved in their journeys.
Thoroughly enjoyed meeting up with old caching friends, and meeting new ones, like "magicflyingfish". Great to meet St Ouens also who had the great victory today of his 1,000th find!!!

Great to see a good turnout. Thanks gr8dad and the Aeronauts for putting it on. Nice to meet the chrystal fairies again and maybe it won't be the last time.

TFTC

Great to be there, as I didn't think I was going to be able to make it . Congrats St Ouens on the big 1K! Hope you're enjoying our challenges, Chrystal Fairies .
Cheers - M@

Many thanks for the afternoon. Our first event cache. Great to put faces to names at last.

Always nice to catch up..
Happy Hunting.
TFTC #787
XC

Always good to catch up with everyone, and a very good venue as well - loads of food and excellent facilities. Nice to see a couple of K9s as well looking eagerly at the BBQ. Thanks for the organisation team.

Great catching up with everyone - thanks for the hints

Was great to see the people we met from the previous events as well as some new faces.. Everyone was so friendly and the organisation was great.. Thanks Gr8dad and the Aeronauts for organising this event.. Thanks should also go to everyone for making us feel at "home". We had a great time...

Bit late but got there in the end, thanks so much, always enjoy the social side to the sport, nice to meet the foreigners, thanks to all!---Glyn & Kay.

What a nice and wonderful event. Good to catch up with everybody and to see the familiar and new faces. Thanks, Gr8dad and Aeronauts for the organisation and the facilities. And thanks to everyone for the variety of food. Man, we feel so stuffed now...
As this was the official "kick off" for the dry caching season: Happy caching!

Had a great time ,thanks to Gr8dad and the Aeronauts for the event . It was nice to meet some people we had not met before and some that we had. Was a good opportunity to do a cache at the site and to look for a couple of others nearby.

This was my very 1st event. Was really lovely to meet you all. Especially putting the names to the faces. I look forward to the next one. Cheers!

(1680)
Met the Foreigners again, and the Locals... always nice to catch up and to meet a few new acquaintances. Many thanks to Gr8dad and Aeronauts for organising a great event.
TFTEvent

More Jeeps

If anyone wants TBs / coins moved to South Island, let me know. I am heading down 4th to 12th Oct, CHCH to Stewart Island via the East Coast and back up the centre of the country. An event in Ashburton on the 4th Oct. As well, I will be in CHCH over Labour weekend, attending another event.

I hope to get my 'display' coins dropped into this event tonight as I have a lot of 'new' coins. The regulars know the drill - email me for an excel spreadsheet of coins to 'discover' after the event if that's what you want to do.

Looking forward to meeting up with old and new faces again...

Will be there, for a short time anyway - have to be across town by 6. Looking forward to meeting new and catching up.

TB Drop

Woof! And Coin Drop!

Should be able to make it, will bring some jeeps.

will be attending, see you there

Looking forward to catching up with everyone

Firming up - we have arranged to be able to be there, at least for the first half of the event.
Count us in for 2 attendees - the butterfly & her nut.

All going well XC will attend..

Well I suppose some of the Aeronauts will be there!!
Dropping a tb!
See you all at our Base!!

And yes, we'll be there too!!
Dropping some more tb's.

Spy3 will be at Meet the Foreigners. See you there!

Team GreenBLAT will be there - looking forward to it!

Well, we're half foreigners. But we will be fully there

Would be nice as I am sure a *Foreigner*. Very new to this, not sure if I would fit in really, I havnt find a cache yet, still looking for one that *grabs* my attention, oh well.---francis [8)]

The TT team should be there with tall tales of caching in Iceland.

Can't Wait to come, Looking forward to it.

Dropping in my coin collection for the day...If anyone is missing an icon come along and see us...

Excellent - a child friendly event cache. We'd love to attend.
See you there!

Will try to sneak out of the neurosurgical conference I am at that weekend

Sounds good! And on a Saturday too! Thanks!

Would love to be there. But cannot stay in "Auckerland" long, as have pressing commitment in Hammytown next morning.
Will advise closer to the date.
Have fun.

will try to attend.

We will definitely be there as we are the "guests" ...
Looking forward to meeting you all soon...

It's in the diary.

Bugger - have a wedding to attend!!

I will be there as long as I don't have to be on call for work, dam that on call... Will try and get Durbite to come along as well. See ya...Gary and Margaret

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