Mini Golf For My Birthday

I had an awesome birthday weekend this year.  My birthday was on a Tuesday and Branden and I arranged to have Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off together.  We spent Sunday just relaxing together and then Branden took me to dinner and to see "The Lucky One."  I liked it and would watch it again.
Monday was an AWESOME day.  I decided that we should go mini golfing so we chose a couple of courses not too far from our apartment.
First we went to Arizona Action Land.  As the name implies, this creepy "fun park" had a Southwestern theme.  Before I get too far into this, I need to let you know that Branden was convinced that this place was straight out of a horror film but I assured him that, since we were there during the day, we would be fine and this would be a great adventure.  Well, we weren't murdered and I laughed a whole lot so I think I can say that I was right!
We had to go into an old bowling alley to purchase our golf game and I wish that I'd taken more pictures because but we were more concerned with the tall, vampirish man behind the counter.  The guy was seriously so pale that I'm convinced he hasn't seen daylight in a few hundred years and he looked at us as if we were the first decent meal he'd seen in a decade.  Thankfully, I was able to use Branden as a distraction while I snapped a picture of this fine bowling team.

 I love that the best thing that can be said about them is that they are not a bad team.  Of course, they're not a GOOD team but... Well, they're not bad.
So off we go to mini golf.  At the very first hole they do a great job of setting the Southwestern theme with... Sea turtles?

 Oh, and this is the first hole.  Try to miss, I dare you!

 Second hole was just confusing.  Here, go ahead a putt across a giant Native American guy holding a slice of watermelon... What?  Also, you can't tell from this picture, but there are two holes and you literally putt uphill.  The first hole is just above his waist and gets you a "hole in two" while the second is just below his mouth and give you a "hole in one."  If you could get the ball up there, you actually couldn't miss.

 Yet another guaranteed hole in one is this guy here.  You don't even putt!  You drop the ball in a hole about four feet off the ground and then it rolls through the pipe you see on his back and lands...

HERE!

 Even though you can't miss, they want you to feel extra good about having come near this giant snake.  Branden actually had to get really close to the rattlesnake and mess with the pipe because it's broken about half-way down and his ball got stuck.

 Here's yet another time that you can't help but get a hole in one... I got it in two. :P

 Hmmm... Even more interesting than the first Native American guy.  This one also has watermelon but this time he has a strange hat, mismatched shoes and... Well... Breasts.  A little racy, huh?

 This was one of my favorite parts!  LOOK!  Actual beaver gnawed trees!  Arizona is known for beavers, right?  It's funny, I've seen beaver gnawed trees in the wild and they looked a little less... Saw cut.  And I cannot tell you how glad I am that there is a piece of fencing in front of those beavers.  I wasn't aware that concrete beavers could contract rabies.

 I'm fairly certain these little guys are beaver victims.  Before they were fenced in, they ran rampant through the mini golf course and some of the other concrete animals lost their lives.

 And this is only the first golf course!
To be fair to the other golf course, it was much more of a standard mini golf course and wasn't nearly as run down.  For the most part it just looked like it wasn't quite ready for the season.  Here are a few pictures of that one:
 This little house was probably haunted but... Isn't that normal in mini golf?

Branden is surveying our next hole.

 And here he is with his new friend.

 Magic mushroom!

 FINE!  I'll post A picture of me!

 This is some nice looking water!

 And the final hole was nearly impossible!  This was just about the only really weird part... Why does the frog have teeth?

We finished off the day by purchasing the plants and soil for our 3-bucket balcony garden, but that's a different post.