Golf Mecca

We're here! It may be Golf Mecca #2, but it still is something - I'd say Scotland might beat it. Yep, the hotel-ridden, chain-restaurant-saturated, strip-mall-heavy metropolis of Augusta, Georgia. We enjoyed some of their nightlife during their first friday of the month time when all the shops are open in the street, which was certainly an experience. That same evening we spent a few hours at the top of the Wachovia building in The Pinnacle Club, a dining club where the tournament chairman treated us to cocktails and appetizers even though he is on a fishing trip in Alaska the whole tournament. We drove our courtesy Lexus SUVs around downtown on Friday night and have been enjoying them ever since!

Dad came for the weekend to see this holyland of golf, but we could only barely see in the gates of "The National" as they call it (it'd be silly to call it Augusta National since we're in Augusta...) and I had to work all day Saturday and most of the day Sunday. Luckily we had the later afternoon off on Sunday and got invited as a group to a course across the river in South Carolina to watch the fireworks and Dad really hit it off with my teammate Sean... all day Monday Dad talked about how Sean is "the son he never had"! Well, good thing he couldn't even enjoy the fact that his beautiful daughter had the day off to spend with him!

We played some mini golf and he beat me pretty badly, but I did serve as a pretty great rules official... you can take the girl out of the golf course, but you can't take the golf course/rules official out of the girl. It's just in my blood now! Then we grabbed some burritos at a cute little place where the owner decided to bet me that Germany would beat Spain on Wednesday because I was wearing my Spain jersey. So when Spain wins tomorrow I get free lunch! The afternoon was finished out with a Toy Story 3 trip, which made me cry at the end, but it was a great movie and I recommend it to everyone. I also cried during the preview for Secretariat, about the Triple Crown horse, so that's going to be a good one. I can recommend it already...

I'll hopefully remember more funny stories soon and will be more inclined to write more if people write something to me! So tell me how things are!