In addition to providing recreational enjoyment, riding in go-karts and playing miniature golf are excellent ways to prepare children for a future filled with single-gear transimissions and malevolent windmills. Start training for the future with today's Groupon: for $30, you get eight activity tickets, 40 game tokens, a large one-topping pizza, and four 20-ounce soft drinks at Kart Ranch Family Entertainment, in Lafayette (a $64.99 value). Pizza and soft drinks must be redeemed during the first visit, but tickets and tokens are transferable and can be saved for return visits.

Open 364 days a year, Kart Ranch entertains Baton Rouge– and New Orleans–area families with a variety of outdoor games and activities. Engage in family-friendly adrenaline pumping by zipping around the tire-laden go-kart track, or test the buoyancy of your brood by squirting each other to splashy submission on the outdoor bumper boats. Batting cages are smartly covered to allow players to practice pitches through rain, shine, and plagues of squirrels, while the adventure golf course sports soothing waterfalls and fountains as players go head-to-head for par-gaining rights. Activity tickets can also be used toward kiddie karts, water wars, and playground admission, while game tokens can be used toward arcade and skill games, which in turn reward tickets that can be exchanged for prizes such as toys, candy, or self-propelled laser doomsday howitzers.

In preparation for the dust-eating you'll be doing on the track, pool, or fairway, stuff eating tanks with the included large pizza and drinks. Kart Ranch's friendly, helpful staff is trained to monitor visitor's safety and will gladly go out of their way to be helpful, offer assistance, or execute complicated team gymnastics routines, to ensure all participants enjoy themselves.

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