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All hail CJ’s Party Store!

Man… I get no respect…. Tara so smoothly tells me that I SUCK for not posting in 4 days…. SO SORRY THAT I’M NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN YOU!!!  BUT I’M BACK NOW!!!  I’LL DANCE LIKE THE MONKEY TO THE MUSIC FOR YOU… LOOK AT ME CLAP MY HANDS WITH CYMBALS… CLAP CLAP CLAP…. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW!??!?!?!

::sigh::  My life is SO hard… I tell ya…

ANYway, today was a day of…. a roadtrip.  Drew, Ray, Dugan, Luke, Sarah, and I (heh heh… I get a link too… ) all went up to Ann Arbor to play some disc golf courses in Hudson Metro Park.  The drive wasn’t terrible, but it was over an hour and change… We stopped at CJ’s Party Store which so calmly advertises “Over 2000 discs in stock.”  To a disc golfer, that’s known as a gold mine.  The stores around the Toledo area that sell discs (and I can think of 3) all pretty much suck for selection.  1 (MC Sporting Goods) only sells “starter packs” which consist of 3 discs that are all beginner discs… The other two are in Bowling Green and are “The Shed” and “The Falcon House” which both carry about 20-30 discs apiece.  So it’s pretty slim pickins round these parts…

So I bought Luke a disc in return for him buying me one a month back or so… and I bought Sarah a new one too (the “Dragon”) cuz she liked one of mine so I got her one of her own.  I also bought myself a new putter… and it freaking ROCKS!  It’s black with a highly rounded edge and a big green outlined “X” on the center of it as well as two sparkle silver logos on the top and bottom of the X.  When you throw it the silver glistens something fierce in the sunlight and when you putt with it upside-down it drops like a brick and flies straight as an arrow… My short game was amazing due to this marvel of DiscCraft engineering.  WOOT!

So after drooling all over the place, we left CJ’s and headed to the park.  We then started at a practice hole at which Dugan threw the maiden voyage of his newly purchased “Panther” disc… yeah… it was never found… After scouring the land for a good 20 minutes, Dugan called in the “LD” (Lost Disc) and we all moved on to start the day.

The first course was 24 holes of Ann Arbor goodness.  After the first 12 I was sitting nice at six under par… Then came the woods.  I finished the back 12 for a total score of zero.  Arg… Ah well…. easy come, easy go.  I just got frustrated when I threw bogey on 6 holes in a row!  Luke finished with an amazing -13 that round, but was not meant to dominate the master throwing of Drew Wood who put up a beastly -14!  Nice shooting!

We drove 10 miles back into town to eat lunch at Ponderosa Steakhouse and then went back to throw the other 24 hole course known only as “The Monster Course.”  This course is played by the pros of the PDGA.  In the end I finished it out with a -4.  Can’t complain bout that!  Luke said his first time on that course was a -1…. So hey…. I beat Luke for once!  WOOT AGAIN!

Sarah has improved her game a ton too… I’m proud of her.  She stuck with it and is now posting scores that rivaled some of us on a few holes!  She beat me on one or two even!

In the end we found one disc and lost three to the tree gnomes of Ann Arbor.  Great day… sunburns… disc golf… good scores… I can deal with that.   OK.  I’m dead tired now.  Must sleep.  I’ll be back soon, I’m sure.

Mood:  I feel happy!  I think I’ll go for a walk!