A Day At Adventure Land

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04 Jul 2006 06:00 PM

As part of our family July 4th celebration we took our daughter to play miniature golf at a designated family fun center called Adventure Land. Adventure Land has a great arcade, 54 holes of miniature golf on 3 separate courses, a raceway speed track for go-karts and even a baseball-batting cage.

In a nutshell, it's a great place for a family outing. We checked the prices before going and two rounds of miniature golf per person is only $7.50 - so for a family of three we spent a little over $20 to play 36 holes of miniature golf. It took us about 2 hours and since it was our daughter's first real chance to play golf - she was tickled pink.

A Day at the Park

I described our rain earlier today, but the rain hadn't started when we headed to go play miniature golf. For a little over a year, whenever I was taking my daughter to her preschool we drove past a golf course and she persistently asked about golf and the opportunity to learn how to play it.

Today we made good on that promise. She didn't do two bad - in fact, there were only two holes where she took more than 3 shots to sink her ball - and since par was 2 strokes on all the holes - she was averaging one stroke above par or maybe it's below par - I'm not good at golf terms.

Mom, Dad and Kids

Adventure Land was populated by many families including one family of ten (5 kids, 2 parents, 1 uncle and 2 grandparents) who were all there making the rounds of the various holes - it was neat to see the many families playing, laughing and having a good time. It was even more fun to watch my husband explaining how to line up a shot and helping our daughter position her body correctly.

He even adjusted to helping her with a left hand stance and that made a lot of difference for her since she is left-handed. By the time we were done - we were hot, sweaty and laughing. We'd talked about different things and we made plans to return for another family outing. Miniature golf - it's cheaper than the movies and you get more activity out of it - and if you only want to play one round of holes - your tickets are good to go back for a second visit where you can play 18 holes again and not have to pay more. Not bad, eh?

Have you ever played miniature golf?

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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Teresa McEntire (2984) 07 Jul 2006 01:09 PM

The last time we went miniature golfing I spent more time keeping my two-year-old out of the water hazards then golfing. I think we'll wait a few years before trying it again.