Bekah Meets the Golf Course

Last Saturday was another new adventure in Bekahland.

Golf.

Lynne's husband loves to golf and he was in charge of organizing a golf outing to raise scholarship money. He asked if I'd be willing to be the photographer for the day.

Let me think. A chance to hang out with Lynne all day, say I've been to a golf course, and play with my camera? OKAY!!!!!!!!!

And so it was that I made my way to an honest to goodness golf club. (I felt so official.)

Aren't they cute? All the little golf carts lined up in a row with labels on them for who would be in what cart. (I'm sure the guys would just die if they knew I called their carts "cute." So do me a favor and don't tell them.)

This outing was quite well orchestrated....the TV station showed up for an interview and everything! Even had little drink holders for it...

Y'all - it was HOT. HOT. This girl does NOT do heat, so I did everything I could to keep cool. I sported my new golf skirt (see, I told you I bought it for a reason!) and my ruffly little tank top. (And yes, I asked first if tank tops were allowed. I'm a golf idiot but I know there are dress code rules and I asked about my entire outfit before I wore it.) No jewelry (other than rings and earrings) so as not to get a weird tan line. Mom bought me a visor to complete my look, and I crammed my hair up in a ponytail to keep it out of my way!

I call this piece "Lynne and Bekah work the sign in table." My shirt was soaked from sweating just sitting there. That is 30 kinds of not right.

My one bit of relief: we were this close to a really big hospital. HA!

Did I mention this was an AFTERNOON golf outing?????? Oh my word. So hot. Anyway. Lynne and I were in charge of the drink cart. (Non-alcoholic beverages only, thankyouverymuch.) Isn't it the cutest cart in the whole world????

Ummmm. Yeah. About operating the cart. If I could have taken video footage of Lynne trying to get that thing going the first time, you'd absolutely DIE laughing. We were parked on a little porch outside the clubhouse and we looked like Steve Urkel trying to get that thing going. We almost took out a table, a massive potted plant and a couple of roof supports making our way to the road. By the time we got to the path for the carts, y'all, we lost the golfers. We were laughing so hard!!!!

We finally found them and then....we realized the operating instructions were buried under a piece of paper taped to the steering wheel!!

Just to prove I actually did take pictures of the event and not just goofy pictures of us....

Our cute little cart. We were GUZZLING iced tea and water. It was blistering hot. (Although on the cart, it wasn't so bad....we went fast enough to get a good little breeze generating.) (And then there was the one time we sideswept a set of bushes.) (On my side.)

I rode like this so as to work on wiping out the band-aid tan lines on my feet. This might be how I almost fell out when we took that one corner kinda fast....

I call this piece "caught in a sprinkler." It felt SO GOOD - but I (of course) didn't want to get the camera wet. So I shoved it under my shirt and stayed in the sprinkler!!

Such a fun day. I had taken about 100 pictures by the time it was half done, and since I still had to drive home and it was 100 degrees (not kidding) outside, Lynne said I could go. So I did. I smelled VILE. But I had a fun, fun day!! And I can say with much certainty that this is NOT the sport for me.