Jacques and Rollande: Weekend

Saturday was supposed to be another quiet day. When the owners arrived to fix the light, they said that they were going to one of their houses if we wanted a ride to go caching we could go with them and come back on the metro. It ended being in Campello where we had already gone and cleaned the area of caches. So, we wandered around for a while before taking the tram back. We found a park with hundreds of ribbons dangling from the branches of a big tree. Every ribbon was a memorial to a dog or cat with their name written on it. I didn't think of taking a picture before we were gone. We spent about 30 minutes looking at the ribbons for one with the name GEO but didn't find it. There were way too many ribbons flapping in the wind.

After supper we went down to the train station again to buy tickets to Valencia for Monday. We leave at 8 and come back at 8:00. It's a 2-hour train ride each way. It will make for a long day. We figure it's about a half hour walk to the train station from the apartment so will have to be up earlier than normal. I made sandwiches that we will eat on the train for breakfast.

Sunday, we went down to the marina and beach again. There is a 14-stage multi cache that we want to do. It is the 14 stone crosses that represent the stations of the cross. We wanted to check out the first 2 or 3 to give us an idea what we were looking for. It is over 6 km long as the crow flies so we will do that probably on Wednesday after we have recuperated from our trip to Valencia. We were told that every year as part of the Easter celebrations, they close down the street and huge crowds of people walk the entire length, stopping to pray at each station. It is in a part of the city that we haven't gone to yet so after those are done and after exploring the area, we will take a tram back.

This afternoon we took the owner, her sister and daughter geocaching. They wanted to see how it's done and if they would like it. We had a great time climbing the small mountain in their backyard. Now they want to add the geocaching app to their phone. The young daughter was running with my GPS trying to follow the compass arrow. It was the hardest physically that we have done since arriving in Alicante. Going up was not so hard but coming down we did not choose the easiest way. My old knees found it a little hard but everyone else didn't seem to mind.

We then went for a drink at their home. They live in a posher part of town in a gated community with a beautiful view of the mountain.