On Sunday I got to hang out at CAMELOT GOLFLAND, a mini golf course in Anaheim that also has an arcade and something called “lazer jousting”… whatever that means. My good friend Kevin was in town (he goes to school in Northern California but was in SoCal for spring break), so we obviously had to find something ridiculous to do.

We hit the jackpot when we went to Camelot. They had five mini-golf courses, and we elected to play the most difficult one. There were two teams: Me & Kevin vs. Graceface & Joanna. Guys vs. Girls.

It was on.

We played all 18 grueling holes, hitting golf balls into pools of water and other obstacles with relative frequency. We kept careful score throughout the game and at the end, it turned out we were tied. So we did a Sudden Death Tie-Breaking Championship Round.

Grace chose the “Mission”, a hole that had a big replica of an adobe mission that you had to hit your ball into. It was the single most intense hole of mini-golf I have ever played, but in the end the guys emerged victorious by just one stroke. We gloated for a good twenty minutes and took lots of pictures (which will eventually make their way onto Facebook, for those of you who are interested).

Afterwards, we stopped by a restaurant called Los Cabos and ate a ton of mexican food before heading off to Downtown Disney, a shopping, entertainment, and super-touristy area right outside of Disneyland.

We were in awe of the fanny pack-laden tourists clambering around us as we wandered into the coolest store ever: the Lego Store. We spent a good twenty minutes in the Lego Store building things. Kevin made a giant pillar and a replica of David Blaine. I made a super-secret spy platform with windows. The five year old next to us just stacked random pieces together, forming little more than a blob of Legos. It’s good to know that while my maturity has stayed the same, my ability to build cool things with Legos has only improved with age.

After Downtown Disney, we drove to Yogurt Land, a self-serve frozen yogurt place where they charge you by the weight of your yogurt (which means you always get waaaay too much). Yogurt Land reminded me of a super-fancy and much nicer version of Jason’s frozen yogurt in Ithaca. Good stuff.

I drove home that night knowing I had accomplished four significant things:

1. I won a game of mini-golf by just one stroke. And I played on the “hard” course.
2. I ate a tamale.
3. I built a super-secret spy platform out of Legos.
4. I ate more frozen yogurt than your average person should eat in a month.

Now all I’m left with is a great sense of accomplishment. What did YOU do this weekend?