The day after Thanksgiving found us chasing golf balls between dinosaurs… The place is called something like Prehistoric Putt, and is the most unconventional miniature golf place I’ve ever seen. Below is Peter, in the proper mood for this place.
Unconventional is actually an understatement. One of the first holes you don’t use a putter; you ride this little chair down a zip line, and attempt to launch your golf ball towards the hole. The chair is swaying and twisting, and everyone seemed to miss the hole… except me! I got a hole in one! You’re gonna think I made this up, but the irony is tried to video making the shot, and the video swerved sideways as I launched the ball, and shows nothing at all. Kinda like shots of Loch Ness Nessie or Yeti the abominable snowman. But my shot really happened!
Another hole starts when you are on the second floor; you hit the ball in a very easy close hole (can’t miss) and it rolls through a clear tube to a giant Plinko board, where it bounces back and forth, finally rolling out hopefully near the actual hole. While your ball is flipping around the Plinko thing, you have the option of taking the slide down to a pit full of soft rubber cubes. Wading towards the ladder to get out of the pit is like running through molasses!
Another challenge is the tilting maze… put your ball in the slot simultaneously with a partner, tilt the maze to get your ball to the end without falling into the several traps on the way. The first one to the end gets a “hole in one,” the next gets two.
This one requires you to bounce your ball off the table, into one of the metal cups. Each cup drops you somewhere near the hole, maybe even a hole in one!
Friday night we had a big family Music Fest at Jeanne’s house. She hadn’t been feeling well enough to join the family for Thanksgiving dinner, so we came to her! A great time with music and fun that she said she enjoyed as much as the rest of us did!
Saturday night saw some of the usual suspects at Becky and Kevin’s house for snacks and games. I’d never seen a game called “Cards vs Gravity.” A small disc is magnetically attached to the top of a bottle, then stiff plastic cards are balanced on the disc or other cards. Winning involves getting rid of all your cards, and loosing can be accomplished quickly by knocking the whole structure down!
[I just now looked up if it’s disk or disc. Disk is usually a medical term or computer storage. Disc is for optical storage or general round things, like disc golf.]
Did I mention it was COLD?! We first got freezing rain, which gave a solid sheet of ice on roads and our driveway. It was fairly easy to remove snow from on top of the ice, but it looks like the ice will stay a while!
