I had such a good day yesterday. Woke up at a reasonable hour, after a reasonable amount of sleep, chatted with a friend for a bit, and went to the gym for a couple of hours. Came home, futzed around, and then went off on a mini-golfing adventure in Saugus. The course was kind of...shoddy. Not well-maintained, and some of the holes were just kind of bizarre and bare-looking. But that wasn't the point, really, and "Jake," "Hansel," and "Vicky" (the names we gave ourselves for the scorecard) all had loads of fun. We trash-talked each other, got holes-in-one, posed with the giant orange dinosaur, did wriggly victory dances (OK, that was just me), got thwacked with rogue balls (OK, again, just me), and laughed and cursed.
After we finished the course, we got soft serve ice cream from the Dairy Castle right next door. I got a twist of chocolate and vanilla, with rainbow jimmies, my favorite -- something I haven't had since...I don't remember when. It was pure sugary glee. When we had all gotten our cones, the woman behind the counter said, "Thanks, kids!" Kids! Hee.
Then we went over to the arcade, and played pinball and skeeball and this racing game on snowmobiles where you could shoot nuclear snowballs. (I have no idea. But holy hell, the seat actually vibrated when you ran into something, which I did a lot of. It was a little distracting, to say the least. But I still beat "Jake's" ass.) We won tickets from skeeball, which we turned in for fabulous prizes. OK, "fabulous": a couple of beaded rings that fit on our pinkies, and two plastic ones that might fit on a 5-year-old's pinky. We spent a good five minutes deliberating about what we should get, though. It's funny what becomes important when you're full of ice cream and giddy from sun and arcade games.
It was all pure fun. I felt goofy and wriggly and carefree and crispy, and the rest of my grown-up problems and difficult relationships and disappointments and struggles just fell away. I felt like a kid, just for a little bit. And it was wonderful. It was a great day.
Posted by thevieve at June 18, 2006 12:45 PM