Frisbee Golf

Klamath Falls is not known for its shopping. Browsing through a store (other than Costco) doesn't happen very often for C and K. While in Boise we visited REI. C and K spent nearly half an hour ogling the vast array of pocket knives. Then they discovered the toy section. If you know REI, you know they are not a toy store. This toy section is quite small. But the boys disappeared into this toy section for quite sometime before C emerged with a large box under his arm and a plan. C had found an assortment of 3 frisbee golf discs, the price tag...$29. This he felt was a good deal as the individual discs sell for upwards of $14 each. After A LOT of internal struggle, C decided to spend his own money on this extravagant purchase. Unfortunately REI had just one box left which would leave K with no disc golf set... C proudly made his purchase, and we headed around the the block to another sporting goods store now on a quest for a disc golf set for K.

What luck, at the new store we found the exact same set for $4 less! C was giddy. He was going to save $4. He could not believe his luck, he would return the set to REI and have FOUR more DOLLARS! This was a major windfall. Both boys felt they had secured an incredible bargain. I couldn't help but hold my breath knowing that together they had just spent over $50 on 6 plastic discs.

In the end, the boys would agree that the big splurge was worth it. Our next stop was Ann Morrison park in Boise. They have a fabulous frisbee golf course. This being a new sport for us I had no idea what to expect. But it was a lot of fun! After about our fourth hole, with the temperature reaching to 102 degrees, all of us covered in sweat, and completely out of water, K looked at me with genuine delight and asked, "Mama, did you not know this would be so fun?"

Somewhere around hole #10 there is this amazing sundial. It is called an analemmatic/equatorial sundial, and it really works! I am not kidding, in about two minutes C had it figured out and together we were able to determine the time to the minute and the date to the day. There is a plaque on the sundial that points out that it even adjusts for daylight savings time. I was absolutely astounded at this contraption, but K quickly pointed out that it would be too hard to carry around and that my watch is better.

Here, the boys posed on the sundial.

We played two more times while we were in Boise. The last time we went with Johan, who dazzled the boys with his throwing ability. K remarked, "Mama, did you not know Papa could throw so far?" The game went very well, and for the record, despite my lack of distance Johan and I had an even score, but the game had to be called when C's disc took a detour into the creek. Knowing how much this disc was worth, C boldly waded into the very murky, very slimy water to retrieve his disc. Unfortunately these things don't float. Although C was unable to recover his own disc, he did find two other discs, of the more expensive variety. He left ecstatic with his good fortune. On the way back to the car both boys were discussing how many discs might be in the creek and how much money they might make by wading in...

I am posting two videos below of the boys on their very first attempts at frisbee golf.