We Are Nerds

Its true. J and I are both incredibly nerdy. We both wear glasses, play video games, read comics and love science. So its no surprise that we've recently fallen in love with a very nerdy hobby: geocaching.

From the Geocaching website: GEOCACHING is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game. Players try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using GPS-enabled devices and then share their experiences online."

Essentially, you can look up these geocaches on the website (or on an app on your phone: more on that later) and they give you the exact coordinates of the location of the cache. You can then enter them into a handheld GPS and it'll take you to the spot of the cache. You steathly grab it, sign your name, and put it back where you found it! There are some extras, like little treasures left behind, or trackable devices you can take to move from cache to cache. And I realize as I am writing this, it sounds silly.

But so far, for us it has been nothing but a ridiculously fun hobby. We've found some new spots that we love in Chicago (like the Cancer Survivors Garden near Millennium Park) and we've had some fun swearing over trying to find what we're looking for. We've introduced J's brother to the game, and now him and his friends are hooked, too!

Overseas geocaching is much more popular, so we want wait to grab some while in Poland and Prague. And we can't wait to make a 30 day streak happen sometime soon!

What's a random nerdy hobby that you love?