Dad - Dreams do come true

Perspective by Emma:

You know, for some weird reason I always get to tell all about my Dad’s wild adventures. Whenever something happens to Dad, it’s always my turn to write the blog. But anyway let’s get right into the story shall we.

Well now Dad’s life is complete. He’s lived his dream. Can anyone take a guess? Dad got FREE tickets to The Players PGA Golf Tournament. When he returned from visiting the World Hall Of Fame Golf Museum in St. Augustine Florida, he comes back with 2 golf tickets in his hand. (Kids get in free.) Dad happened to stumble upon people who know people, who just happen to have 2 extra tickets. So next thing we know we are all on our way to The Players at the luxurious TCP Sawgrass Golf Course.

Once we got there, we went through more security than you would traveling on an airplane. While Dad was shopping for golf stuff (and losing his wallet – a whole other story), Mom, Leah and I hung out at the famous 17th hole watching the caddies of the caddies try to par the hole. We soon find out that there is to be a special presentation on the 18th hole where Mr. George Bush the 1st will make an appearance and a short speech. It’s quite the ceremony with 200 military people in white that stood out in the bright green grass like a beach ball in a snow bank.

But just when we think all the excitement is over, Dad rushes us over to the practice field were a few men practice their putting. Not sure that they were actually famous golfers, we watch them for a few minutes. Then Dad realizes that one of the men is Vijay Singh and another is Padrig Harrington! Dad starts snapping pictures when suddenly another young guy walks onto the practice field. Suddenly the group of kids beside of us start screaming his name SERGIO GARCIA, or whatever his name is. (Apparently the guy who won the big tourney last year). The kids beside us, who were kind of annoying, keep screaming his name. I’m surprised the golfers didn’t start throwing their putters at them! But instead Sergio starts tossing out golf balls at them. All the kids started running for the balls. Dad quickly threw the camera to us, and dove down to try to catch the balls.

Determined to get one of the three balls, when the next one came rolling down, he was ready. He made a huge V-shape with his arms and grabbed the ball. I’m surprised he didn’t laugh in the kids’ face and say Ha! Suckers. I got the ball, and you didn’t! It even had a fiery red S on it for Sergio. Dad will probably sleep with it under his pillow for the rest of his life. Oh and I almost forgot to tell you about the clubhouse. My word Delburne needs to bump it up a notch! First of all it looked like a huge Palace, and you needed the special pass to get in. Well I think that wraps it up. And that was our “The Players Golf Experience”.

Because of all the golf going on I didn’t get to tell you about getting out of Orlando and St. Augustine (the oldest city in North America.) Getting out of Orland was crazy, as Dad would say. We went through 5 pay tolls, and we paid over $12.

And now I well tell you about St. Augustine. Mom loved St. Augustine. It is so old and pretty. We went to the Castillo de San Marco’s National Monument. It is a fort in St.Augustine that was ruled by the Spanish, until 1763 when the British took it over. It was very cute and quite an amazing design.

We have compiled all your Disney villains and it seems like the awful Maleficent off of Sleeping Beauty, Cruella deVille and the Evil Queen off of Snow White were the favorites! My vote would definitely be for Cruella de Ville.

And now what you’ve all been waiting for another nail-biting head-puzzling TRIVIA QUIESTION!!!! , in our rush to get to the Golf Tourney, what did Dad run over with the van??

Ta,Ta for now. Signing of from Savannah, Georgia. Bye.
Blog entry by: Emma