Putt Putt

We have been enjoying a mini-golf game on-line (at miniclip.com) and Jake kept asking to go for real. Friday was rainy and with all the projects we had been doing we needed to get out of the house, so we went to the only miniature golf place in the area. It was a wacky course inside the mall called "Groovy Golf" - glow in the dark with disco music going. The holes where put together with 2X4's and felt and glow-in-the-dark paint and tape lined the way. We had a lot of fun.
Robert's mind started going as to how easy it would be to set up a hole in the basement. We got a couple of kid putters, some no fly plastic golf balls and went to Lowe's to picked up other needed items. Robert rigged together an adjustable putt putt set-up, cutting a hole in one of the mats for the hole. You can move the edging into different patterns and add a block or other item to go around. The kids even put down carpet pieces to act as sand traps and made up rules like: if your ball stops on a red mat you are in "hot lava" and have to go back to the beginning.
Saturday chores have never been done so quickly and the house has never been as quiet as it was this morning while the kids played putt putt in the basement. They finally came up for lunch, went bike riding with the neighbor across the street, then brought her over to play some putt putt as well.