The last hole, originally uploaded by Claudia Snell.

We went out to Monster Mini Golf in Webster yesterday. What a fun place to bring the kids!

If you haven’t been there (I hadn’t), it’s indoor miniature golfing with a monster theme. It’s all dark in there. Everything is painted with fluorescent paint and they’ve got tons of black lights - yippee!! Fun! (see in the pictures)

Apparently, it’s a chain with locations in Groton, CT, Webster, MA, Norwood, MA and a few other spots. The flyer says there will be new ones opening around Massachusetts but none near here.

They’ve got a birthday party room and party packages too. There were some parties going on while we were there and it seemed pretty well organized. The prices look pretty good too - $20 for 2 adults and 1 kid to golf when we went. Check out the site for more information - http://www.monsterminigolf.com.

I got to play “ski ball” - they call it “ice ball”. I like to play that game

We won a bunch of tickets and the kids got fun toys. This is Sarah waiting to cash in some of the tickets.

I found out that I’m still completely horrible at mini golf. I AM good at cheating at mini golf though. My particular “talent” was for whacking my ball behind the little gravestone obstacles. Eventually, I figured out that using a field hockey and/or soccer type approach worked better for me. between tapping the ball with my feet and guiding it with the stick I was able to get the ball to the hole. I did actually accidentally get a hole-in-one on one of the holes (legitimately). Good thing we weren’t keeping proper score. I would have lost big time!