Since playing frisbee golf with my staff from Oregon Tech was such a hit last Monday and because Angela Stewart said they really enjoy playing as a family even though Aubrey is very young, we decided to go to Crest Park today to play a round. Sadly, this appears to be the closest I'm going to get to a family vacation this summer. Maybe we'll squeeze in another family outing before the Labor Day Weekend is over.
Anyway . . . everyone knows how much Phillip and Jameson despise any sort of physical competition, so it was fun to get everyone together and all be able to do something like this together. Jamey's good buddy, Colby Mueller, came along, too.
It was a beautiful day for being out. Maybe a bit warm but Jeannette brought popsicles for all of us to eat in the shade after the seventh hole.I would say that Jeannette played with a handicap, but some might be offended that I would characterize my daughter in such terms. Actually, the handicap wasn't so much that she had to throw while carrying MelodyJoy on her hip as it was that she was using a pink Disney Princess flying disc . . . not exactly a competition-level piece of equipment. But, then again, when the best frisbee in play is a giveaway from Biola University, it's clear that no one had an particularly big advantage.
For much of the course, our drives consisted largely of yelling, "Good roll!" though I did have the misfortune of having the wind get under one of my throws, ending with my disc landing out of bounds . . . beyond the barbed wire fence in territory that Darci and Trevor explored on Monday . . . their example helped me recover well to record just a four or five on that hole.After we finished the nine holes, we
spent a little time on the playground there and Jordan and Phillip took Melody down her first "big" outdoor slide . . . big meaning it was taller than five feet . . . nowadays it's unusual to find anything very high, I assume because everyone's afraid of getting sued if some kid slips off the top step. Melody was holding her breath as they came zipping down the slide.She also got her second exposure to swings and seemed to enjoy them a lot more than she did last week. Since I know there is a select audience out there who care about nothing in this blog except pictures of MJ, I'll close with two swingin' photos.
2 comments:
That looks like a great family outing. We've never played Frisbee golf, but know what you mean about only owning those promo frisbees!
Actually the only frisbee golf I know of is quite a long ways from here-up toward Buffalo.
Actually, all you have to do is find a park with trees or poles and just make up your own course, like we did back when I was in college. You just say "see that tree over there? That's the first hole" and then you all start shooting for it and keeping score.
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