in honor of today's holiday

You know, International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I give you a busty wench hanging from a tree:

Coincidentally, my next (and final) post from Virginia Beach was going to be about Pirate's Paradise mini-golf. My husband and I played this course on our last night at the beach.

There were random pirates throughout the course. The lady above greeted us at the first hole.

Now, I'm not a very good mini-golfer, and I don't stand a chance against my husband, but it's fun anyway.

I actually started out well, making some good long putts. And then I fell apart. This course was a bit more challenging than it appeared.

This is a river that runs into a series of ponds:

My pink golf ball went for a little ride through this river after bouncing off a rock. It was rescued by the couple ahead of us before hitting the second pond!

Later on, it decided it would go for another dip in here:

I was able to rescue this one myself. They stationed nets at all of the water hazards.

I'm not sure what the final score was, but I don't think we really need to know that!

In other pirate news ... without planning it, I'm wearing my parrot shoes today!