Held in the parking lot of Mike's Famous Harleys - New Castle Delaware has seen a lot of micro sized containers appear in caches during 2006. So why not a Micro Event? This Event was listed on geocaching.com in late November. Its name was a big clue as to where it was to be held but the listing showed its host as "Famous Mike". Those who clicked the profile discovered that Famous Mike looked a lot like Mike Ott.

There were two big challenges to this Event. The first was to to get there while the event was still happening. Why was this a challenge? The Event was listed as running from 11:30 AM to 11:31 AM. That's right, the Micro Event was to be 1 minute long! The second challenge was to find the spot where the event was happening during the allotted time limit. As seen in the gallery below more than a dozen people did.

Many of these folks got to the spot well ahead of the starting time but there were a few who just made it. At the appointed starting time host Mike Ott produced a bottle of champagne and distributed thimble sized cups. The bottle was uncorked; everyone got a thimble full, and a toast was raised. With that the time was up and the Event was over. This Micro Event was a perfect holiday kickoff. Everyone was in great spirits!

Like all good geocaching events, though, geocachers stayed and socialized. And, like all good geocaching events geocachers banded into groups and set of for a day of geocaching. We hear one group stayed at it until midnight that night!

During the event Mary of the Maxiam team captured the photos that have become this photo gallery. That explains why she doesn't appear in any of the pictures. If anyone else who attended has photos, contact us, we have room for more.

A note about the captions - if any one is misidentified or not identified, please let us know and wel'll make the correction.