Yesterday I took my son out and did some shopping. I told him that if he was good then at the end I had a surprise for him. He did very well indeed other than the incessant request of... "can we be done now" and "can we get out of here".
True to my word I took him Minigolfing. The place we go mini golfing is a huge building that looks like a castle with two mini golf courses inside and one outside. They also have a huge arcade upstairs and a little kids arcade downstairs. Bumper cars outside and go-karts.
I'm thinking about all the stuff they have when I realize that I just missed the exit on the highway I needed to take to get there and my son pipes up in the back.. Mommy .. I thought we were going to Castle Fun Park. Have you ever tried to explain to a four year old that you made a mistake? If you haven't it's like explaining a black hole.. it's an enigma to them and they don't really fully understand but they are more than happy to tell everyone they meet about it.
After getting all turned around and arriving at Castle Fun Park we head inside. Although it's been raining all morning my son decides he wants to golf the outside course. Having never done so before I agree. We go outside with a putter that's too big for him and grass greens that are squelching with the water that still saturates them. After three attempts to hit the ball we go back inside for a club that doesn't get stuck in his armpit and go out to commence our water golfing.
We had a lot of fun but I would say that the outside course is a bit hard for him because quite a few of the holes had a building you had to hit the ball into so I don't imagine in the future we'll be doing the outside one again. I however took full advantage and although I only had my annoying little point and shoot with me I took a few pictures.
One of a slug who decided to share the golf greens with us, many of my son including the hole in one he got and a couple randoms of the stuff surrounding the course.
