Sep 5, 2013

Kate wanted to go to Delaware so we went to Lums Pond to play a round of disc golf. There rarely seems to be anyone else out there. The game was good, but I overshot a couple of times and had to search for my disc in the woods. I really liked this course, but I get a little bored with it now. I've seen too much. It was still fun for a quick game. We went over to Argilla Brewing to sample a few of their beers and have something to eat. The Family Tree English pale ale was awesome. Definitely my favorite of theirs I've tried.

Later, Chuck joined us to try some other beers that I'd gotten recently. The Sea Dog Blueberry is really good, and their Riverdriver Hazelnut Porter is damn good. I am partial to hazelnut porters/nut beers in general though. And of course we had a TenFidy by Oskar Blues, and those are always great. Finally, the Trick or Treat by Evil Genius was worth another try also. Good night.

Nov 21, 2010

Ryan and I decided to go to Delaware instead of much farther away for a hike and play disc golf instead. We went to Lum's Pond, where the weather was really nice for playing.

Ryan played lefty and did really well. Much better than I could ever do with my left arm. I can barely putt that way.

We went over to White Clay Creek for a second game, where we came upon quite a few people playing. One large group of guys was there that didn't seem to belong at all. They were yelling and threatening to fight one another. It just didn't seem right. White Clay was good, though I didn't feel well for about half of the game. Strangely, I remember every hole there though I had only been once before.

We drove home as the sun went down and the full moon rose large over the landscape. We passed by a lot of place where I was tempted to stop and take shots. I want to go back to this school in Bridgeton soon and take some good shots. This was from the car while I was stopped at a light.

The rest of the night was uneventful, spent watching Discovery Channel shows and Dexter.

Mar 17, 2010

Ryan picked up Chuck and me in the morning and we headed to Delaware for a day of disc golf. We went to Carousel Park first for a good beating.

The weather was perfect and we got a workout on all the hills of the course. Chuck wasn't a big fan of those but we all had a good time.

We were ready for a break after 18 holes at that course so we went to Quizno's for lunch. Once we were refueled we headed out to course two.

Even though the first course was really nice and barely showed any signs of rain damage, Lum's Pond was flooded and almost unplayable. We had to walk carefully around the first few holes to get to our discs, so after the second one we decided to go to a different one.

We went to Iron Hill, which is another brutal course with long fairways. It wasn't muddy though, so that was a plus. We played about nine holes probably, which add up to a full course somewhere else, before calling it a day and going home.

I came home and had time to relax and have something to eat before band practice. We sounded really good with all of us there. We worked a few things out and ended the night excited about playing our show.

I hung out watching Californication for a while and then went for another night run because I couldn't sleep.

Dec 18, 2009

We headed to Delaware in the morning to play a good amount of disc golf. After bagels with veggie cream cheese at DD we were ready to play Brandywine. There was no wind at all, which was great and unusual for that course.

We had some nice shots and never even lost a disc! Actually, I found one on the hole where I have lost at least three.

After Brandywine, we headed down to Lums Pond. We ran into a guy that we saw playing at the last course and he was by himself now so he joined us for our game. Hole three, which is sometimes surrounded by a puddle of water, looked like this. Half mud, half frozen lake. We made our shots anyway. The rest of the course was fine and I made some really good shots. I got one deuce and a three on hole sixteen which is par five.

We decided to stop at Iron Hill on the way back since it's right on the way to try out hole seventeen when it wasn't raining. Just getting really cold.

I wasn't really happy with my drive on it so I think I could have done much better. It seemed almost the same as when we played it in the rain.

We both scored 8, one less than last time, but Joanna was so close to a 7; her last shot hit the edge of the basket. We can call it a 7.5...

We headed back to Rowan and went to Shop Rite for food after hearing about the impending crazy snow storm. She did some last minute shopping while I waited in the car and then gave me this box of Christmas gifts. The Whoppers are really good... I went home to get some supplies, shower and cook the pierogies that we bought, then I came back.

I helped edit/thesaurusize her application for a Rowan position while we waited for it to start snowing. Eventually, the snow started falling and it didn't seem too bad.

The campus looked really nice in a light dusting of snow.

Once the application was finished it was time to get some sleep while the snow piled up.

Aug 18, 2009

I had physical therapy at 8am. This is one of the high tech instruments used in my therapy to strengthen my leg. It's really basic obviously but it works. Step ups. Sort of.

I had a quick breakfast and then met Jeff and Chuck and headed to Sedgeley Woods in Philly to play disc golf. We played 18 holes and it was a good game. I had some good shots and some bad ones. Overall I ended up -12 I think. It was a good game. The last nine holes are usually too much so we decided not to do them.

We snaked our way through center city to Sarcone's Deli and picked up some hoagies. I got the Veggie with all the long hot peppers and spicy spread on it. We drove down to Lum's Pond course in Delaware and at them at the picnic tables. Mine was extremely spicy. I could only eat half because it was so huge and I still felt a little sick after. Could have been the heat.

This course is always a lot of fun. I had a few more bad shots on this course but I also had a few really good ones. I think all three of us had the mix of really nice shots followed by annoying misses.

I ended up under par but I don't remember my score. Also, I can climb trees again.

After we got home and showered we met back up at Bennigan's for some Quizzo action. Our main rivals weren't even there to face us after we beat them last week! Good thing for use because we ended up placing third. Jen, Stephen and Micah showed up towards the end of the game for a break from driving home from the shore and hung out until we left.

The day was a lot of fun, I wish we got to do more disc golf trips this summer. There's always the fall, I suppose..

Mar 14, 2009

Chuck and Nate met me at my house in the morning and we drove to the Philly disc golf course only to find that they were having a tournament. At this course, it means we can't even play.

A little disappointed, we headed to Sarcone's deli to get sandwiches for later. I got a veggie hoagie which turned out to be amazing. I will return for another of those.

We decided to check out Iron Hill, a course that was recommended to us, in Delaware. It was a bit confusing and hard to figure out which baskets went with which tees. They had concrete pro tees and nice markers but no numbers on the baskets or maps to tell us where to shoot. Also, I'm not sure why I like this picture so much.. it just makes me laugh.

We agreed to cut the game short at hole 6 and head to Lum's Pond where we knew we would enjoy ourselves.

I had a pretty good game. We actually kept score for the first time in a while. It was a nice cool day with no wind so we could play without interference.

Before we left, Nate showed us a disc rainbow.

Shortly after we got back, Katie, Jeff, Sam and I went to Atlantic City. We went to Firewater's first for some drinks.

It was the first time I'd been out with Jeff for some time and AC is always fun.

I got a really good beer, I forget what it's called, but it's Troegs.

It was time for our reservation so we headed down to P.F. Chang's. We ran into Cory with his sister and people for her twenty first birthday.

We got some really good vegetarian foods. It was a nice atmosphere and not too expensive at all. I'm surprised I've never been there.

We had lots of food and good conversations/debates and found another place that we can come back to soon.

It was a good day all around from the disc golf morning to the amazing veggie sandwich to the night out in AC. A nice start to my spring break.

Mar 7, 2009

It was a perfect day out today, temperatures in the 60s, so Chuck and I went to Lum's Pond in Delaware for some disc golf.

It was nice to wear a t-shirt and shorts outside and I was even still a little warm in that.

Chuck got to wear his '08 Jersey for the first official away game of the season. I know.. I know.

The course was a lot of fun. It's one of my favorites that I've played. The only downside is the daily out-of-state admission to get in.

On our way home, we stopped at the Pennsville course and played a quick nine holes. It's a good relaxing course with no elevation change or many obstacles. I just didn't want to go home yet.

A little later, I met Johanna at Milmay Tavern for her birthday celebration. There wasn't a whole lot of celebrating going on while I was there but we got to hang out for a short time.

The rest of the night was spent at Dave's house for his birthday party. They played beer pong while we played Rock Band in the living room. It was fun in its way.

Daylight Savings Time sucks on this end because it's already morning, but at least we'll have some more sunlight for late games.