Without dedicated bonding time, family members grow resentful of one another's bad habits, such as cheating at Monopoly and warming socks in the toaster. Preserve familial unity with today’s Groupon: for $49, you get $100 worth of bumper boats, driving-range balls, mini golf and other activities at Cedar Creek Sports Center in Mount Juliet.
Families and friends romp in playful competition through Cedar Creek Sports Center's 16.5 acres of activities. Two 18-hole putt-putt courses ($5/game) give miniature linksmen room to roam, and the 12-acre driving range ($9/105–110 balls) provides a scenic exile for underperforming golf balls. Autobahn enthusiasts can hone speeding skills on the 1,100-foot go-kart track ($5/ride) or fend off water-borne barrages from ill-mannered bumper boats ($4/ride), each equipped with sprayers that soak buoyant battlers or satiate seafaring thirsts.
Prepare for invasions of giant locusts by swatting away at one of 10 fully automatic ABC pitching machines, which hurtle softballs or baseballs at a choice of sphere-slinging speeds ($1.25/20 pitches). This Groupon is not valid toward the game room, and cannot be used for golf-club fittings or any hitting, pitching, or golf lessons.
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The Groupon Guide to: Archaeology
Archaeology is the science of digging up dirt to find morsels of broken ceramics and delicious bones to make history soup. Here’s a guide to executing an archaeological dig:
• Any location can be an archaeological site if you dig deep enough. Sift through your neighbor’s trash to find a wealth of information about how humans survive and where the catalogs go after you circle everything you want and leave them on your neighbor's doorstep.
• Digging for bones used to be outsourced to dogs, but ever since they embarrassed us at the dog park, humans have done our own digging. Be sure to bring a shovel, a trowel, and an insatiable need to destroy an earthworm's habitat.
• Archaeologists collect human bones to remind us that everyone in the past was a spooky skeleton until humans evolved to have flesh in the late 1950s and souls in the early 1990s.
• When an archaeologist finds a pottery fragment, he must also find the other fragments of the jar it came from and reassemble them, or risk being the only archaeologist who has never drunk mead from an ancient jar.
• Use carbon dating to find out how old fossils are. Carbon dating is a process in which scientists take fossilized carbon on a date and ask it questions about the 1970s to find out if it is old enough to remember that time period.
• If you can't find any fossils, make some of your own by putting a lizard in a tray of wet clay.
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