If a fire truck arrives as your cookies come out of the oven, perhaps you’ve overbaked.
If you’re a member of the Chattanooga Area Geocachers, the fire truck’s arrival is simply the signal that the fifth annual Christmas party is nearing an end.
More than 60 geocachers and family members turned out for the holiday celebration held Sunday night at the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department’s Apison station. The event included a potluck dinner, a scavenger hunt and a spirited cookie exchange.
Unlike some cookie exchanges where each baker brings several dozen of a favorite cookie and everyone goes home with a mixed bag, the geocachers each brought a dozen and went home with a different dozen. For a group accustomed to using the global positioning system to find caches hidden in the great outdoors, the cookie exchange was plenty of fun to be had inside.
“It’s always a good time,” said longtime geocacher Carolyn Cox, who left with a container of raspberry-dipped madeleines.