We have played the courses at Golf N' Stuff before back when I was a kid (even with Mik when he used a walker and was more adventurous). I chose Course 2 over Course 1 simply because there was a pirate bird statue that direction. We enjoyed the course and while we ended up over par, we also had quite a few hole-in-ones (4 for me, 2 for Dad).
Course 2
Hole 1
Hole 2
Hole 3
Hole 4
Hole 5
Hole 6
Hole 7
Hole 8
Hole 9
Hole 10
Hole 11
Hole 12
Hole 13
Hole 14
Hole 15
Hole 16
Hole 17
Hole 18
Final Scores
Kjersti - 55 (won via tiebreaker of having more hole-in-ones)
We went mini golfing for Nora's birthday. Originally, she had invited me saying we were going to Mt. Atlanticus, but she changed her mind and chose Ripley's Crazy Golf instead.
Ripley's Crazy Golf turned out to definitely live up to the crazy in its name with a variety of unique hole designs. Several of the holes are designed to resemble playing games such as Skee-Ball, Plink-O, billiards, and pinball. The most unique hole is Hole 16 with a swing that you can ride on to try to drop your ball in the hole as your first stroke on the hole. The hole that you have the ball go down a giant toilet is also fun.
As we rode the elevator after Hole 3, we noticed a sign that you could do the scoring on your phone, which we then switched to as we enjoyed when we did that at City Mini Golf in Chicago.
Overall we had a lot of fun playing Ripley's Crazy Golf. Definitely a course we would play again, but only in the off season like this could easily get too crowded and slow. Only complaint is that they accidentally rung us up for the Mirror Maze instead of Mini Golf, which meant the ticket did not let us go through the Mini Golf turnstile and we had to wait about 10 minutes for the manager to come fix the problem (and pay the few dollar difference due to their mistake...).
Game of Putts Photo Op by Hole 1
Hole 2 - 360 Loop
Hole 3 - Plink-O
After Hole 3 you go up the elevator to continue on Level 2
Dad and I enjoyed the East Potomac Miniature Golf course back in 2018 before we started tracking our mini golf adventures. I have been wanting to visit again since we started doing our Mini Golf Adventures and now was the perfect time with it being recently reopening after being closed for a restoration project.
We tried to play the course a few days ago, but it had rained too hard early that morning that parts of the course (mainly the paths) had too much standing water that the course was closed. It rained most of the next day and overnight, but by late morning it had become sunny and we decided to head over to see if the course was dried out enough to play. Luckily, it was as this was our last chance to play this trip.
As East Potomac Park is part of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, I brought along Ranger Dan.
East Potomac's Miniature Golf Course National Register of Historic Places Sign
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