We’ve spent A LOT of hours at the beach and the pool over the last few days (especially Monday, when Melanie, the kids and I swam to Cuba, but that is another story for another time), so today we decided to mix it up and go play a few games. There’s a big Kids’ Adventure Extravaganza-type place not too far down the road, so we set off in that direction around 9:30 this morning.
It’s important for you to understand that by 9:30 this morning, it was already – and this is just an approximation – 172 degrees outside with a crisp relative humidity of 468 percent. So it was very cool and refreshing. Breezy, really.
When we pulled up to the World-O-Golf-N-Stuff, we immediately decided we needed to commemorate the day with a picture, so the young’uns hopped into an abandoned pirate ship and indulged us.
I would’ve snapped a few more, but quite frankly I was burning up and ready to walk into the air conditioned arcade. We knew that putt-putt was going to be the first activity on our agenda, and I felt like I needed to stockpile all the air conditioned moments I could before I spent an hour trying to hit a golf ball around all manner of tricky obstacles. I mean, I know the PGA Tour is tough and all, but even those golfers don’t have to contend with trying to sink putts in some sort of cave or fiery volcano.
We got to choose between two putt-putt courses, and when Caroline deferred to Alex on the course selection, he went with Lost Lagoon. I was under the impression that Lost Lagoon was a nine-hole course, but it was actually eighteen. Clearly the Lost Lagoon doesn’t mess around, and I don’t mind saying that the course conditions were brutal. While the front nine boasted a good bit of shade, the back nine was so treeless that 1) I stopped at the 13th hole to put sunscreen on my flip-flopped feet and 2) at one point I contemplated crawling underneath a very small oleander bush in the hopes of escaping the blazing sun.
In the end the heat was totally worth it, though, because we had ourselves a blast. Melanie shot about 42 under par and, in all honesty, played the putt-putt game of a lifetime. Caroline knocked the fire out of the ball on more than one occasion and shows great putt-putt promise. Alex could’ve cared less how he did because he was so enthralled with watching everybody else play (if he said, “AWESOME SHOT, MISS MELANIE” once, he said it thirty times), and I shot a solid 36 over par and easily lost two to four pounds of water weight.
So I guess today taught us that Melanie is going to join the LPGA, Caroline is going to apprentice as Mel’s caddy so that she can learn the ropes of the game, Alex is going to be a play-by-play announcer, and I’m going to be the crazy, overheated bystander who follows everybody from hole to hole and looks for shade under shrubbery.
Sounds like we have ourselves a plan.
You are boiling to death outside, we are getting ready to set our oars to water. Oh my heavens! We’ve had so much rain!
Oh look! That’s Noah! I’m going to go bake him a nice pan of brownies.
Have fun!
Sounds like today’s plan is POOL!
My favorite part of the beach is looking at it from my air-conditioned condo window. I don’t do heat very well and I would have just stayed in the shade at Putt-Putt! Sounds like ya’ll had a great time!
OMW. That sounds like so much fun!! But I’m pretty sure I would have been under the shrubbery 52% of the time.
36 over par is my good game! Usually, my husband will just pre-fill all sixes for me on the score card. He’s supportive like that!
Sunburns and miniature golf just go together.
The words, “Awesome shot Miz Melanie!” Some how in my mind all I could conjure up was a little southern gentleman talking to Miz Melanie from GWTW.
Tell Melanie to get our her hoop skirts for the next round of Putt Putt.
Oh, Sophie, I laughed at loud throughout that entire post. And I totally feel your pain about the heat, sister, as I live in Central Texas. While Mel’s been gone, this great state apparently fell into the center of the sun because it’s already 1 billion degrees in early June. Heaven help us all. :-)
Can’t.type.for.chuckling! Hee hee hee hee! Dee-light-ful, you are. And yoda (I guess) I am.
i am love love loving these updates!! thanks so much for sharing your trip with us!!!! it’s almost like getting to go to our beloved gulf ourselves. : )
Glad you’re having such a good time! Alex sounds like a one-man cheering section!
Why do kids want to only play putt putt when it’s a balmy 127 degrees out side? Glad you had fun!
Sounds like a great time! Even in all that heat! ! I love to hear how the trip is going and all the fun you guys are having but I miss hearing about all the hors d’oeuvres (did I spell that right?) suppers! ! ! Come on now, girls! Start filling us in on what is filling you at dinner please!
Really glad you are having such a good time, you deserve it! Thank you for sharing it with us.
I’m so glad some other geeky mom calls it “putt putt”. My kids think I’m so odd. Mini golf sounds so “I wanna be a real sport”. But Putt Putt..now that is an event.
I love your vacation!!
that always happens to me…i can totally ROCK a mini golf game, but a real course? not so much. but still i hack away. :0)
That picture will look so cute in their wedding slide show! ;)
Oh, how I love that boy of yours! I mean, from afar and without ever having met him, but still…. I love him.
What is it about the beach that demands a game of mini-golf? I’m not sure I’ve ever had a trip without it. But now for the important stuff…where are y’all eating?? It’s been over three weeks since I had the crab cakes at the Original Oyster House, and I’m STILL thinking about them. (Good thing I had them though; next time I probably won’t be able to afford them. Thanks, BP.)
I love you, you are hilarious!!
I know I live in Phoenix, bt I do not do heat well. I would have joined you under the oleander.
That sounds like great fun!