Miniature Golf

Lynn and I decided to play miniature golf last weekend. In addition to having a real 9 hole golf course, Catalina Island has a great miniature golf course in Avalon. All you do is putt, and the tricky holes make playing mini golf here a combination of putting and playing pool because you have to figure the angles to bounce the ball off the walls and various obstacles into the hole. The course is 2 blocks from the beach in a beautiful grove of eucalyptus trees. Smells great after a rain. There's a tiny stream that meanders through the trees, so it's like you're in an oasis. When we came up to the little booth to pay and get our putters, there were two "watch dogs" guarding the place. They were asleep on the window sill. They weren't pit bulls or rotweillers; you could say they had a mixed pedigree. They're mutts. Nice mutts. They must have decided we weren't a threat, because each dog opened one eye, looked at us for a moment, and went back to sleep.

Lynn's a good golfer, but putting is her weakness. I don't golf at all, but I do have a certain knack for putting. Guess who won at mini golf? We're big-time gamblers, and after Lynn's crushing defeat, she had to buy the ice cream. Hah!!!