Sunday Joy!

After a less-than-successful disc golf outing Saturday, I was not all that enthusiastic about playing disc golf on Sunday.  My body was aching from many days of training, and I was a bit tired.  I figured that I’d perhaps spend Sunday putting, lifting weights and doing some other form of exercise.

When we got home from church I was helping my daughter unload her car with the variety of equipment and toys she brings for her boys when she comes to visit us on Sunday.  In the back of her van was her disc golf bag.  “Oh!”  I said, “were you wanting to play some disc golf today?”  Carole replied, “Maybe…” in a half-way enthusiastic sort of way.

I knew that if we went to play we would be taking her two boys with us, as there was no one else at home to watch them.  Her oldest used to follow us all over the disc golf course, stirring up the ant hills and throwing sticks in the water, but hadn’t gone in quite a while.  The baby, who is nearly 10 months, has never gone with us when we played disc golf, so that was going to be an adventure. 

Shortly after noon, as we were beginning to get lulled into a half-awake, half-asleep state of lethargy, when I said, “Let’s all go to the park!”  We all got ready, climbed into the van with disc golf bags, stroller, cooler of icy water, some toys and a bottle of icy cold water for the baby.  We told Anthony that he would be in charge of pushing Aiden around in the stroller, knowing full well that it would be nearly impossible to do that without help because of the sandy soil.

We decided to play the back nine of T-1, and headed out.  Anthony knows the course well from being with us so often, so when we threw our drives from the tee pad, he ran ahead to find where they landed.  After our second throws, Anthony ran ahead to the basket and picked up each disc, throwing each soundly into the basket. 

Normally, this would not be a good thing, of course, but it was a hot, sunny day, and if Anthony wanted to participate by throwing our putts for us, all the better.  We pushed Aiden from one shady spot to another on the course, but still near the end he was getting warm.  While the rest of us were out-right sweating. Although he doesn’t drink much water, I think the cool bottle tasted good to him after being in his stroller for a while.  

We pulled down the mosquito netting to keep bugs out of and toys and pacifier in the stroller.  I even gave Aiden a disc of his own to play with in the stroller.  He had fun with it. 

It was a quick, but interesting trip.  The nine holes took us about an hour and it was good to just be doing something outside, physical, and fun for everyone.  The trip also renewed my love of throwing discs.

What felt even better was jumping in our pool when we got home!  Goodbye sweat, sand and exhaustion!  And afterwards it was time for all of us to take a nap.