Family Fun Night

We have adopted a policy this summer of taking Saturday evenings off. Last year we let groups move in early on Saturday's, basically anytime they wanted. This season we are allowing groups to move in from 8:30 - 11:00 on Saturday's and then we are taking the rest of the day for family time! This Saturday was our first one and we had fun!
We headed out to the Opryland area to Grand Ole Golf. I have been going there since I was a kid and they had bumper boats. They have ditched the bumper boats in favor of go carts!! Tristan had a great time riding with Dad on the go carts, they won the race!!

Tristan was very serious at first, he wouldn't even wave at me, but the he started to relax and have fun!

Emeline rode with me. I'm not quite as much fun as Dad, but we still had fun. Emeline cried the whole first lap and then she looked at me and said "Mom, this is fun!" She relaxed and had a great time! Evelyn was tall enough to ride, but wasn't sure and she decided against it after watching Tristan.
After go carts we hit the mini-golf course: 18 holes of crazy! Our kids have never been golfing so there was a bit of a learning curve.

Tristan picked it up pretty quickly and managed to do pretty well through all 18 holes. He was really into it and wanted to play the other 18 hole course.

Emeline, however, did not catch on so quickly. She kept trying to scoop the ball in instead of hit it. It didn't work out so well.

She finally let Dad help her out a little bit, but then she was back to her old ways. Maybe next time she will get the hang of it.

Evelyn got a little help from Dad too, but in the end she was putting just like her big sister.

It's really an interesting way to golf. Just scoop the ball into the hole. Evelyn got two hole-in-ones with a little help from Dad!

Dad and I were a little more competitive, but we ended up with a tie.

Dad and the kids after our game!

My turn!

After golf we headed to Opry Mills to eat at Chuy's. There was almost an hour wait, but we had a late lunch so it worked out. But, we didn't sit down until after 7:00. We love Chuy's! Not only do they have good food, but they are so accommodating with Evelyn's food allergies. The first time we went there we gave the server Evelyn's allergy card and the kitchen manager came to our table to let us know what was safe for Evelyn to eat!

After dinner we headed home to bed!!

Family night was a GREAT success and we all had fun. We are thinking of going to see Brave later in June and then maybe doing a boy outing and a girls outing. I'm wanting to take the girls to get pedicures one day. I think they would love it, especially Emeline.