Friday, September 22, 2006

North Valley: A Love/Hate Relationship


First off, I'd like to say welcome to the new readership (if indeed they do actually read this stuff). Apparently I have friends outside of the disc golf community. And it seems as if these friends have discovered this blog, despite my unintentional attempt at exclusivity. To the new readers: if the subject matter does not suit your fancy, I would not be offended if you get terribly bored with this blog right quick and decide never to return. This is the nature of things. But if you do, indeed, have a fascination for all things disc, we wouldn't mind if you stuck around.

That said, let us continue...

In the Southeastern "burbs" of the Cities is a place called Inver Grove Heights. Whilst traversing Inver Grove Heights, you may happen upon a park, right off of I-494. Within this park is a disc golf course that goes by the name of the North Valley Park Disc Golfing Course (I understand this is an unnecessary build up, just bear with me).

One may surmise from the title of this piece that I both love and hate this course. I am still baffled as to how I can live in this paradox. Anyhow, MRKing and UrbWes and myself made the trek to this course last Saturday.

These are the reasons we went:
1) It was my birthday on Tuesday and I'll be buggered if I'm not going to disc the week of my birth. I didn't emerge from the placenta for nuthin'

2) Because it was my birthday (week), I got to choose where we went

3) I have an over-developed sense of accomplishment and I thought my recent level of play meant that I'd be able to perform up to par (and even hopefully below it)

4) I'm an idiot. I like the course. Read these as mutually exclusive, causitive or resultative


Here's the reasons we should not have gone:
1) I'm an idiot (see above)

2) The wind was like somthing out of the "Wizard of Oz"

3) I had been playing well lately, but my Karma just isn't that great

4) If I was going to have a bad day, I might as well have chosen Kaposia

Anyways, I had a rough time of it. MRKing lost a disc (though played well otherwise) and we met a new friend, Brian, a 23 year old computer graphics major from ------ College in downtown. In retrospect, the round really wasn't that horrible. I mean, let's be honest. I'm no Ken Climo.

But I included some pictures, taken from Pap's camera, for ya'll's enjoyment, including the first ever picture of our dear friend, URBWes!


Keep it Loose
Keep it Tight

~Diggs

3 comments:

Michael said...

Happy birthday bro!
I'm glad you got to celebrate your birthday doing something you love...

Anonymous said...

Placenta talk is gross.

Anonymous said...

Did you get a new "frisbee" for your birthday? Oh wait- I mean "disc"! :)