Castle Park

When I was 13 we moved from Pennsylvania to California. My parents were just learning the area and they would always try to find fun stuff for us to do. I have no idea how they came to find Castle Park, but it became a place where we made tons of fun memories. Castle Park is a little amusement park/arcade/miniature golf course. The mini golf course is like no other that I have ever been to in my life, even now. There are 4 courses that weive in and out of each other. All of them are beautifully landscaped and they have really fun obstacles to get through. They have a lot of holes where you hit the ball into a hole and it comes out down on a different level and you don't know where it is going to come out. The arcade was always great for a competive game of air hockey and I could always be found at the Pac Man machine. We would collect endless amounts of tickets from the skee ball machines, hoping for a great prize but always ended up going home with a rubber ball or something just as lame. As I got older Castle Park became a fun place to "hang out". My frinds and I would ride the "big" rides, most of which spin you until your brain felt like scrambled eggs and later we would over dose on cotton candy. We would always scope out the place for cute boys, I think I even had a crush on a boy working at one of the carnival games.
I tell you all of this because a couple of weekends ago I went to Castle Park for the first time in almost 15 years! I wasn't sure what to expect ... was it going to be the same as I remeber it in all of my fun memories? Had the place gotten run down over the years? Had they completely changed the place? Well ... it was everything i remembered it to be and more. Being a mom I saw the park through a whole new set of eyes. I didn't realize they had so many cute kiddie rides! The park had been kept up and barely changed at all in 15 years. We had a really great time. I can't wait until Grace is big enough to play mini golf. I know that we will create so many fun new memories there.