Austin Park

Across the highway from the hotel we stayed in during Michelle's wedding, was Austin Park. We drove by it several times and the Go-carts and Putt-Putt Golf course were just too enticing to pass up. So the morning after the wedding, we let Darren swim at the hotel pool for a while and then went and grabbed some pizza for lunch and headed to Austin Park. It was much bigger than it looked from the road. Our first stop was the Go-carts. The Go-carts looked great from the outside, but once they started up it was pretty obvious from the sound that underneath that shiny fiberglass was somebody's retired lawn mower. You can hear it for yourself in the video at the end. The one Darren drove was especially slow. We aren't sure if that was because Darren didn't have it floored like the other kids or if he just drew the short straw and got the crappy mower, I mean Go-cart. Either way, he got lapped. But the good thing about getting lapped was that for a short while, it looked as though he was in first place. Go Darren! When the time was up it was obvious he wasn't impressed and we quickly moved on to the Putt-Putt Golf.

He had just gotten buckled in, and was getting acquainted with the controls.

At this point he was in "first" place.

We didn't have a stroller and it was pretty hot out, so we kept moving Kamryn from shade spot to shade spot as we made our way through the course. She seemed to really enjoy herself.

The first thing you saw from the highway was this castle. We were a little disappointed it wasn't actually part of the course, just a gigantic center piece.

This was Zach's hole-in-one. Lindsey made one too, but I don't have a picture of that. She rode with us to the wedding, so she kinda got drug along to Austin Park as well. She had a good time though, and actually I think she might have beat Zach at Putt-Putt.

This is the video of Darren during the Jr. Go-cart race. He is in the yellow and blue one bringing up the rear. You can hear Zach yelling at him to push the petal down harder, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was just as fast as that thing could go.