We started our day in the woods and along the path found newly opening wildflowers, a babbling creek (from all our recents rains) and yes, the cache container - in which we traded some travel bugs.
You surely didn't think we would identify the wildflowers, did you? Remember we are an animal species motivated group, not botany. Maybe our botany prone friends could help?
Clear water.
B gets the 'find.'
A few caches later we came across a puzzle cache in which we needed to count the steps of the 5 circuit Cretan style labyrinth, do some math and then pace off 47 steps to actually find the cache container. If you had been a fly in the woods, I'm sure you might have found it interesting to hear what a 13 yr old, a 43 yr old and a 65ish yr old might have to say about the labyrinth - please let it be known - we all had differenting opinions and observations!
Center 
Counting and figuring out the clues to which direction we should be taking our paces to find the cache.
Who knew??? Not us. There is a micro brewery right here in Dexter, and we didn't even know it. It is the Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales Brewery. (if you go to their website, you've got to click on their products link. Again, who knew?!) Now had it been a winery, I'm sure I would have been up on the details. It was closed today, and the Tap House is not to open until later this year. But it was fun to make this find, only about 5 blocks from our house. We are going to return this week to buy gramps a few bottles of the Jack O'Lantern brew for his birthday, which is this coming weekend. Should I pick a few bottles up for anybody else???
Taproom won't open until after we have moved. Reason to visit?
Here are the details about the brewery, for those interested:Founded in 2004, this brewery makes use of open fermentation (wild yeasts) and oak barrel aging to produce delightfully sour beers and farmhouse ales in the Belgian tradition. No two batches are ever exactly the same, intentionally and enjoyably so. The brewery is named after two of the very favorite things of the founders: Halloween and pirates! There is no brewpub at this unassuming location, but they do have a small retail store and occasional tasting counter on premises which is open Fridays from noon to six. After Thanksgiving and through the coldest months you may also find them open on Saturdays. If they are open and you drop in, you will likely get a chance to say hello to the owners Laurie and Ron (the latter also being the the head brewer). If they are not open, you can find their product sold in wine bottles at various local stores that carry craft beers. They are surprisingly well known and widely distributed given the relatively small size of their largely family-run operation. This is no doubt due to the quality and uniqueness of their products, which have won awards at the Great American Beer Festival. Once we were visiting Tokyo, Japan and were pleased to find two of their beverages on sale at a store there!
So now do you see how a labyrinth, a micro brewery, wildflowers and caching all go together? LOL, for us it's just a 'normal' day of geocaching and enjoying the different things that we find along the way. The weather was perfect, the exercise needed and the company was - let's just say entertaining!!! The three of us added 12 'finds' to our geocaching find column, found 3 new travel bugs and dropped off 2 bugs we had with us, we found 2 things we didn't even know were there, and laughed at a couple of things along the way. It was great to be outside!!! We were hoping that spring and the warm weather was here to stay, but the next few days are going to be rainy and cold again. Thankfully, we enjoyed while it lasted.
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