"Woke up" at 2:30am. I'd planned on going to the Summer Solstice at Sunrise geocaching event, which began at 5:24am, and picking up a geocache along the way. Unfortunately, when I got into my car and turned it on, I discovered that the cellphone charger had exploded into several pieces. Not just that: it also blew the power socket fuse. So at 3am, there I was changing the fuse. I was surprised I could even handle a pair of pliers so early in the morning. Actually, I dropped the replacement fuse once but found it again sitting at the bottom of the fuse and changeholder compartment.
So I actually started a bit after 3am. Stopped at the Quick Chek in Westfield for the first geocache of the day and a buttered Portuguese roll. I arrived at the event half an hour early and there were already a few people in the parking lot of the Omega Diner (I wonder if there were Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma Diners before the Omega Diner :) ) waiting for it to start. It was a good event and quite well-attended despite the early hour. I had a Texas Chili Omelette, literally an omelette stuffed with chili, which was probably the best item on the breakfast menu.
Then we went our separate ways geocaching. I did a load of geocaches down in Florence, Roebling, Burlington, Beverly, Edgewater Park, and Delran. There were a lot there that I hadn't visited because I hadn't been to that side of South Jersey in quite a while.
At Nickel for a Tickle, I met the owner of Holiday Ice Cream, who had been wondering why people had been poking around at his toony squirrel sculpture. So I explained geocaching and showed the cache to him. He's a nice man and he was okay with the cache placement, but this illustrates why people who place caches at businesses should clear those placements with the store owner beforehand. A business is private property, so that is the right thing to do.
And finally, I ended the day at the Third Tuesday Beer and Burgers geocaching event. (The event had been moved from Tuesday to Thursday temporarily for the Summer Solstice.) Like me, a number of geocachers actually did attend both events and had been out geocaching all day. We're hard core! At around 9pm, there was a passing storm. Lightning struck and killed the lights. That was a dramatic way to end the day!
Bob's Quick Cache (New Jersey)
Summer Solstice at Sunrise (5:24 am) (New Jersey)
Summer Solstice - Pirate Treasure (New Jersey)
Micro Park Micro - Check Your Hedding Again (New Jersey)
Small Green Acres Park (Roebling) (New Jersey)
The Historic Village of Roebling Cache (New Jersey)
Assiscunk Creek cache (New Jersey)
The oldest drugstore in NJ.. (New Jersey)
The Water Works (New Jersey)
Catch Cat's Cache (New Jersey)
TEACHER'S PETS (New Jersey)
Fi-dough (New Jersey)
Glamdring (New Jersey)
Roze Rocks! (New Jersey)
Nickel for a Tickle (New Jersey)
The Grunriese Challenge - FTF Guru (New Jersey)
Our Tribute to Tim Taylor (New Jersey)
IAATN Micro Series (Old Sam) (New Jersey)
IAATN Micro Series (bridge) (New Jersey)
My Home Away From Home (New Jersey)