NMC Park-A-Lot

For Michael's second cache we headed to our church. We were tickled to learn that there was a cache hidden in the parking lot area. Michael left the gps in Ted's hands this time and stuck out on his own.

For some reason the gps seemed to take us to a location that would be an impossible place to locate a cache. Michael stuck out to look at something in the grass and what happened next has provided many laughs in the ensuing days. He was walking in a bit of tall grass about 30 yards away when suddenly we heard him yelling. Ted and I looked his direction in time to see him running wildly across the lawn. I had never seen him move so fast. Michael's eyes were wild, his hair was flying back and as he moved he pumped his arms fiercely and ran as though he were high-stepping. It was quite a sight to behold and, unfortunately, over almost as soon as it began.
"Something," he panted, "was in the grass!"

I was already laughing. He thought it was a turkey. He glanced over his shoulder, as if it may be right behind him. Ted jovially exclaimed, "Well, let's go check it out!"


Off we all marched, back across the lawn. Michael now making a wide circle around that tall patch of grass. Ted, who fears nothing, headed straight into the offending area. I stopped to watch and Michael meekly followed Ted at a "safe" distance. Very quickly Ted's rolling laughter started. The "turkey" that scared Michael witless was a duck sitting in the grass. Ted said she didn't even move when she saw them. Michael was embarrassed, poor guy. When he later recounted the story to his parents he was very good-natured about the incident and laughed.

We quickly regrouped and headed back to the hunt for the cache. Apparently all of the activity helped and we were right on the cache. Number two for the night. All of the excitement had made us hungry so we decided to find something to eat.

Nappanee Missionary Church was founded in the late 1870s. It was originally located near the center of Nappanee. The church moved to it's current location in 1981.