The Pass of All Passes

This year, because of the baby, we won't really be able to take a family vacation. Instead we decided to buy everyone in our family "The Pass of All Passes". It's a year pass for our local water park, 2 local mini-golf places (that also have batting cages, laser tag, go-carts, and small rides), season tickets to our local pioneer league baseball team, and our local D-league NBA team. For all that, it was fairly reasonable, only $40 for a year. It actually was much cheaper than a trip to Buffalo usually costs us (though we don't get the bonus of seeing all the family we love!!).

So, already, we have gone and played mini-golf twice, once with John and I, and once with the whole family. The girls had never been to play miniature golf and they really liked it. And they are surprisingly good at it. While playing, I learned that Adam is not content to just try, he must succeed. No matter how many times he had to hit the ball, he wouldn't leave a hole until he had gotten the ball in the hole. And for Ruth, as long as she got the ball in the whole, she was a winner. After every hole she would shout, "I won 5 times!!" (on the fifth hole, for example). The older girls all had a lot of fun too. In the future we might have to split up into teams, but other than that, it went really well. And no one got hit in the head with the metal clubs, which was the real bonus. So the summer should be pretty fun. I'm very excited for lots of reasons.