BIG BEAR’S BIG BIRTHDAY BASH Event

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BEAR!

GC3B571 BIG BEARS BIG BIRTHDAY BASH by Tru2Cntry.

BIG BEAR’s birthday is no small event, at least it isn’t anymore! I thought it would be fun to celebrate BIG BEAR’s Birthday with all of our Geocaching Family. Neither BIG BEAR or I have family close by, and we love being with our Geocaching Family and Friends so we invited everybody to celebrate his birthday with us.

We published the Event and found out that there were 7 other birthday’s all within a month of BIG BEAR’s birthday. Well Geocaching friends are such great people, that’s one of the reason’s Geocaching is fun to do. Shampoodles and Ponytails, painted some great Geocaching rocks for the Gift Bags. We had a lot of Geocaches on the raffle table thanks to: OlCowboy, Georooks, Shampoodles, Ponytails, Dakotachix, Jeeperjones and Rat&Mushroom brought their signature Ammo Cans! Whoo Hoo… the raffle table was filling up!

I rented the Round Table Pizza Party room for 2 hours: 7-9 pm, I arrived at 6 to decorate and found out that they didn’t have my reservation for that day and time… so we just started filling up the tables and booths out in the Pizza restauraant area. And there was a birthday party already using the Party room that wasn’t scheduled to leave for another 2 hours… good thing we are flexible. The Manager at Round Table was awesome, “Penny” took over the sitution and the group with the birthday party left and hour earlier than they had planned. Thank you for that!

Geocachers were showing up left and right, no time to decorate, or so I thought. Lets just pick up our stuff and move to the Party room. Once in the room, Shampoodles, Ponytails and so many others started helping me decorate, I think Tink1914 team was putting up Party Zone banners, Shampoodles and I were putting down the table cloths. It was starting to look like a birthday party!!

RAT & MUSHROOM, Mushroom has a "Mush" stach!

While everybody ordered their pizza‘s and salads, we started things off with a Geocaching Bingo game mixer which I got here: Geocaching Online Resource Directory: Printables. For those who got a BINGO I had made custom Key Chain Lanyards with their Geocaching name on them to get as a prize, they were a hit!

After everybody had gotten their fill of Pizza I grabbed BIG BEAR and asked him to Emcee the Raffle. BIG BEAR is a natural at Emceeing! He had a great time calling out the numbers and having fun with everyone.

BIG BEAR emcees the raffleCantseem helps BIG BEAR with the raflleBIG BEAR and OlCowboy

BIG BEAR & T2C with the CakeBIG BEAR's Cake!

BIG BEAR blowing out the candles

Now it’s time for the Birthday cake and Ice Cream. BIG BEAR didn’t know about the cake. Dakotachix and I were putting the candles on and lighting them while the raffle was winding down. As soon as the candles were lit we broke into the “Happy Birthday to You” song and brought the cake in. It was a Bear cake made out of Cupcakes, with a Garmin 60csx in one hand and a blue iPhone in the other hand with a T-Shirt that read: FTF on it! The cupcakes went fast, and then I forgot to bring out the ice cream. I took it home and BIG BEAR had some later, so all is good there.

Overall there were over 45 people that came, 2 hours was a little to short, I think next time I will do a 4 hour Event and I will get there 2 hours early to set up. I am not sure but it seemed like everybody got there an hour early, so if I want to decorate I need to be there way ahead of time to do it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BEAR!

Cantseem & BIG BEAR running the raffle

BIG BEAR the Emcee

RAT & MUSHROOM, Mushroom has a “Mush” stach!

Birthday Party

Birthday Party

Birthday Party

Birthday Party

Birthday Party

BIG BEAR & T2C with the Cake

BIG BEAR blowing out the candles

BIG BEAR blowing out the candles

BIG BEAR blowing out the candles

BIG BEAR’s Cake!

Cantseem helps BIG BEAR with the raflle

BIG BEAR emcees the raffle

BIG BEAR and OlCowboy

But what a great time we had, Thank you to all our Geocaching family for coming and honoring BIG BEAR and for contributing to the fun. We are going to make this an annual Event and have already started planning next year’s event!!

2011 – FEB 19th – Happy~B Day T2C

Happy~B Day T2C

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BIG BEAR. placed a cache in honor of my birthday several days ago. I saw them pop up on my iPhone, as I was in the middle of projecting a presentation I couldnt run right out and go for them. About an hour later, I was able to look them up and see all the details. I called and texted several Geofriends, seemed no one wanted to go out that night. It was dark by then and there was a storm coming in, the roads to the caches were Jeep or 4 wheel drive rated so I knew better than to venture out by myself. Looks like they would have to wait.

Well sure enough a storm came through, and not just any storm, it dropped snow in Redding, something we don’t see all the time. Now what, and a fellow Geocacher had already gotten the FTF on this one. So I go to work and wait until I can get the time and good enough weather to go hunt these caches down.

Finally on Saturday afternoon I got a break!! I was losing daylight, but the 7″ of snow had melted so I called Odek and he met up with me to go hunt the caches!! Just as the sun was going down, and with no flashlight with us, we got it!!!

WoW it was filled with all kinds of Birthday Stuff! Party Hats, Party Horns and everything you could want for a Party!! Thank you BIG BEAR, that was an honor and a whole bunch of fun!!! Happy Birthday to T2C! So to all my Geofriends come on out and help me celebrate my birthday by sharing in my Geocaching adventures, let me know, and I will go with you!

BIG BEAR honored my Milestones achievements by placing these caches, they are on the way to Happy B Day so grab them too!
Hats off to T2C
T2C at 2000