Ripley’s Old MacDonald’s Farm Golf Part 3: "Chicken Egg-Spress"

Note: For this entry, the BLACK text is Aaron speaking. The PINK text is Aunt Peg speaking. Also, as usual, you can click on the embedded photos to enlarge them.

Dear Aunt Peg:

This was our second day of playing at this course. Since we still had one game left to play and there was still one course we hadn't tried, we came back to play more at this fantastic course. With our final game, we decided to try the medium-level course, Chicken Egg-Spress.

 
At this hen-house they lay eggs cooked to order.

  
More of Old MacDonald.

    
Who is a really good human to his canine companion.

These cows also commented on your shots, like the horses did on that other course. They were also equally as frightening.

  
This pig was staring at me, so  I had to get a picture, if only because it was kind of creepy.

    
Right - those aren’t porcine eyes!!  Those are HUMAN eyes in a piggy face!!!  Of course it’s creepy!!!  I don’t think he’s really a pig at all!!!  He’s an ALIEN!!!!!!!!!

This was funny. If you shot under the “security” dog house, the guard dog came out and said stuff at you!

 
Hole 11 looked out on the milking barn.  

  
Look at the cat!!  You know, I used to have a friend whose family owned a Grade C dairy.  I think that means they mostly sold to cheese manufacturers.  In any case, once they took the milking machines off the cows, the cats all came in and licked them clean!!  I thought it was delightful.  Perhaps the USDA wasn’t quite so enthusiastic.

Here’s another one of those pinball holes, only with what I think are gophers.

  
Right??  What ARE those beings???  Do they actually occur in nature??  Or is this course ACTUALLY an alien course, where aliens have designed what they THINK are our domesticated animals, only they’re all just a little bit OFF!!!!

More Heckle and Jeckle.

  
This was the first 2-tiered hole I can remember on this course.  You putted into one of the two holes on the top, it went down the mud-making machine, and onto the bottom tier.  

 That pig looked very content.

    
That pig looks like an alien invader.  You call that a pig???

Dad won another free game!  For our free game, we played “Porky Putts” a second time. 

 See the pig-washer??

   
Right.  You think that’s a pig-washer.  That’s really a portal to their home planet!!

Statistics:

Par:  40
Aaron:  41
Barb:  38
Paul:  36

Difficulty (1-6 putts, 6 putts being the most difficult):  2 putts
Rating (1-10 balls, 10 being the most wondrous):  8.5 balls.   I really loved this course.  It was awesome.

Free game Statistics:   (“Porky Putts”)

Par:  43
Aaron:  41
Barb:  39
Paul:  40
 
WHOA!!  Dig all those scores!!  My relatives are hot golfers!!

Coming soon:  Black Light Pirate Golf at MagiQuest, Pigeon Forge, TN

Ripley’s Old MacDonald’s Farm Golf Part 2: " Porky Putts"

Note: For this entry, the BLACK text is Aaron speaking. The PINK text is Aunt Peg speaking. Also, as usual, you can click on the embedded photos to enlarge them.

Dear Aunt Peg:
 
After we played through The Udder Course, we decided to play one more course that day. We chose the hard course, Porky Putts. We also played it one more time before we left.

The first thing on this course are these sunbathing, snorkeling, showering pigs.  They were listening to “Surfing U.S.A.” and “Good Vibrations” and talking amongst themselves about the state of their affairs.

The sunbathers had a cooler - a “Pigloo” brand cooler, with “Pig Gulp” sodas. 

  

Ha!!

This course didn’t seem to us to be any more difficult than the “Udder Course”.  We only noticed the different theme.
 

OH!!!  I love the duck in the innertube!!  Now, see, this isn’t blue water - it’s NORMAL water!!!  See, they don’t HAVE to dye their water!!!

OH!!  Bees!!  You know, I used to keep bees.  Actually, one of my many ex-husbands was really the bee-keeper.  We actually got an entire box of bees sent to us in the mail!!  The postal carrier was not amused.  It came in a wooden box - about 8 inches by 8 inches by 8 inches, all screened in on two sides.  And filled, filled, filled, with hot, buzzing bees!

  
They were cute bees.

Pigs in . . . the mud??  Yes, it was concrete mud.

  
This goat yelled jokes at you.

  
Man, this makes me think of those places in Door County, Wisconsin, where they have actual, live goats on the roof!!  Like, Al Johnson’s restaurant in Sister Bay.  More on THAT later!

The best shot on this hole was to putt directly under the out-house.  It gave a straight shot at the hole.  They also played sounds effects of Old MacDonald PEEING inside the outhouse!! I actually got a hole-in-one the first time I played this hole.

  
Now THAT’S entertainment!!

On some of the holes, it was hard to see where everything would end up.

  
This was the only par 4 hole in the entire course.  I actually got it in 2.  It could go all the way around, or could cut through the wooden trough.  

 Dad’s ball got stuck in the wall.

 
Isn’t there a Pink Floyd song about that??

When you’d putt underneath these crates, the turkeys would pop up and say something.

  
Are these dinners made out of turkeys . . . or made FOR turkeys??

This hole was tough.  There was an extremely small margin of error.

  
This was like a pin-ball hole.  You’d hit your ball, and it’d roll down hill through all the rabbits.

  


This one was fun, because you could put into the trough, and the river was running through the trough, so the water would carry your ball down to the hole.

 
Another free game hole.  Dad won, so he got to sign his name.

  
 They had a Ripley’s “Super Fun Zone” next door.  When you bought a round of minigolf, they’d give you two free tokens to that.  

With our total of six tokens, we all played a round of pinball.  

 Statistics:

Par:  43
Aaron:  42
Barb:  44
Paul:  42
 
LOOK!!!  Aaron broke par!!!  So did Paul!!!

Difficulty (1-6 putts, 6 putts being the most difficult):  2.5 putts
Rating (1-10 balls, 10 being the most wondrous):  8.5 balls.   I really loved this course.  It was awesome.

Coming soon:  Ripley’s Old MacDonald’s Farm Golf - “Chicken Eggs-press”

Ripley’s Old MacDonald’s Farm Golf Part 1: "The Udder Course"

Note: For this entry, the BLACK text is Aaron speaking. The PINK text is Aunt Peg speaking. Also, as usual, you can click on the embedded photos to enlarge them.

Dear Aunt Peg:

Today we went to Ripley's "Old MacDonald's Farm Golf," in Sevierville, Tennessee. This was the surprise favorite of our trip.  Here you can see Old MacDonald and his dog Duke  positioned out in front, welcoming the guests.

  
We played this course over the next two days.  They have three courses, and you could play all three for $15.00.  The “Udder Course” (which was the cow theme) was considered the easy course;  the “Chicken Egg-spress” (which was the chicken theme) was considered the medium course; and the “Porky Putts” (which was the pig theme) was considered the difficult course.

    
You know, I am laughing so hard I’m practically falling off my chair.  This is ideal goofiness for minigolf, if you ask me!!

The first day we played  the “Udder Course” and “Porky Putts”.  It had just rained, so the astro-turf was wet.

To get in they gave you these neat tickets, and you scanned them and went through the turn-stile.  Dad liked the face on the ticket.

    
Geez, almost like riding the el!! 

They had a nice selection of putters.  They were my favorite type of clubs - the perfect weight.  The astro-turf was perfect, too.  The ball selection was mostly pastel.

    
Yeah, Aaron always likes to play with a RED ball.  Looks like he had to play with a pink!!

The “Udder Course.”

This course NEVER breaks its theme.  That’s what I loved about this course.  The first thing you notice, at the first hole, even, is that all of these cows are mooing at you really loudly.  It’s ridiculous.  And back there, in Old MacDonald’s shed, you can hear them hammering away at a project, occasionally yelling, “OW!  My thumb!”  And to top it all off, there’s a constant rendition of “Turkey in the Straw” being played through-out the course.  It was fun.

    
Man, I’m all good with the talking animals, but if I had to listen to Turkey in the Straw for a whole course, I’d be taking a shot-gun to the speakers.  And I’m a non-violent, Buddhist, vegetarian.  But, seriously, after living in the city of Chicago for 30 some years, and hearing those awful ice cream trucks playing “Turkey in the Straw” over and over and over all summer, I JUST don’t think I could stay on this course!!!  Good thing it was Aaron playing this without me!!!

Look at this clearly designated teeing-off spot.  The transition from the tee to the green was not completely smooth, though, which bothered Mom. It occasionally caused her ball to bounce upon hitting that division, leading to less-than-accurate putts.

I love Old MacDonald and Duke in the boat!!  Humans should take their companions on lovely outings like this!!  Yay!!

  
They had some pretty interesting holes, but even when they didn’t, the course’s ambiance was so much fun. These sheep would say “good shot!” every once in awhile.   It seemed like some holes actually had motion sensors to make the animals comment on your shot.  But on other holes, it seemed as if the animals just spoke periodically.

  
The right path on this goat hole became a water hazard!

This pig, as he crossed out the “country ham” sign, muttered “hasn’t anybody heard about turkey bacon?!"

  
Or SOY BACON!!!  I LOVE soy bacon!!!  I made some for my brother, Dave, while he was visiting the week before last!!  He said it tasted like a meat cracker.  Whatever that would be.   Also:  another big BUTT for our big BUTT blog!!!

When pigs fly!

  
These horses also commented on your shot.  This was one with a motion sensor.

 

 
The scarecrow father and son.  The scarecrow father was telling his son how to be a good scarecrow . . . and obviously not succeeding!

    
Don’t those look like the old Warner Brother’s cartoon crows??  Heckle and Jeckle??  Did these guys pay royalties on Heckle and Jeckle??

Snorkeling goose.  Or is it a duck?

   
Well, at least it’s not walking along the side of I-88!!!

Pigs on a see-saw!

  
Rabbits!

    
This looks like Evanston!!  Where we are over-run with suicidal bunnies!!  Seriously, if you bike at night, they’ll run right out in front of your bike!!  Watch out!!!

On hole 18, you got an automatic score of 1 no matter what.  But the question was whether or not you won a free game.  

We won three free games.  That was from three of us taking three shots each (one in each of our three games).  Dad won two games and I won one, allowing us to play a free fourth round.
 

Par:  39
Aaron:  45
Barb:  42
Paul:  45

Difficulty (1-6 putts, 6 putts being the most difficult):  2 putts
Rating (1-10 balls, 10 being the most wondrous):  8.5 balls.   I really loved this course.  I had a blast, plain and simple.

Coming soon:  Ripley’s Old MacDonald’s Farm Golf - “Porky Putts”