The golf scramble yesterday went swimmingly. I use swimmingly because of the number of balls lost in the water, as the golf course was more like a beach resort (with its water hazards and sand traps on every hole) than a field of greens. Anyway, I lost about 18 balls. But its ok, because I think that most of my foursome lost more than I did. The best was when I hit this beautiful drive right over the water hazard (this was my job on the team, as the women's tee had far less distance to travel over water than the men's did), and BONG, it caught an edge on this tall tree (yes we all heard the kerplunk), turned 180 degrees and ended up back in the water.

Ok, anyway, you will all be happy to know, I didn't embarrass myself. We used more than my minimum of 2 drives. I even had one mulligan left when the game ended and about 4 inches of string. (They let each of us "buy" two mulligans and a yard of string).

We finished with an 87 raw score, and the bizarre method of calculating handicaps ended up in our favor because we had like 5 over par on one of the holes they used for that calculation, giving us a -15, so we ended up with 72, placing us dead in the center of the rankings (so, alas, we won no cash, but on the other hand, we didn't earn the distinction of being the WORST). I wonder how the astronaut team did...?

I also proved to be a kick-ass golf cart driver. This is a new thing to me, because on the rare occasion that I went golfing with my father, we walked the course, dragging our clubs behind us on a little wheely cart. I have to say, the golf cart makes it much more interesting. We went off-roading in it more than once :) Matt (one of my co-workers) kept saying "This isn't an ATV its a golf cart!" before burrying his head in his lap, closing his eyes, and screeching like a girl. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating there. But it was fun.

And... Today... STAR WARS on an extended lunch break.