I'm feeling pretty good today, I beat a 10 year old boy at mini golf. Hey, you gotta pump up the old ego whenever you can.
Today the girls and I met an old friend of mine and her son for a round of mini golf and lunch. We knew each other way back when neither of us had kids, we could shop in the Junior section, and our marriages were brand new. Our hubby's actually went to high school together and they introduced T. and I. Now we are the best of friends and the hubby's rarely talk. I love seeing her. She is one of the sweetest, nicest people you could ever meet, yet she doesn't make me sick with her niceness, and she is a super mom.
We met up at the mini golf place because I figured that would be something her son could do without being too bored and my girls could try for the first time so they would be entertained and that would leave us time to chat without 5 million trillion interruptions. It would have been a better plan if it wasn't so freakin hot, but we made it work. Even so, by the time we finished our 18 holes I think we all would have loved to slide down the decorative water falls even if we did end up in the pond at the bottom with the freaky catfish thing that seemed to be following us around the course.
As soon as we made it down the street to the Cracker Barrel I high tailed it to the restroom to dry myself off. I did get a few startled looks as I mopped my brow and neck up with their paper towel (and thank goodness they had paper towel and not those horribly useless hand dryer things). I explained to the lady with her daughter, who were staring as they washed their hands, that we had been mini golfing and she seemed to understand and ceased giving me the crazy lady stare. T confessed to me that she was carrying deodorant/antiperspirant in her purse on this trip because the relatives they are staying with do not have central a/c. How do people live like that in this day and age?!
I was loving the Cracker Barrel restaurant today. First, it was blessedly cool after our mini golf expedition. Second, the kids love to sit in the rocking chairs out front while we wait to be seated. Third, they serve breakfast all day. Fourth, they have checkers and those little peg games at the tables for the kids. And fifth, after we eat they can look around the little store and pick out a small candy instead of me having to order some huge dessert.
All in all we had a pretty fun day and I think the girls have a little bit of a crush on T's son. Cute!
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