Is there any better way to spend an hour on a beautiful spring day than miniature golfing in the basement of a funeral home?
Ten people joined me on an adventure to Ahlgrim Family Funeral Home in Palatine. The course has been there since the 1960’s. (You can read about it on their web site.) It’s free and open to the public — as long as there isn’t a funeral taking place upstairs.
We were met by a very nice man who ushered us through the lobby (past display cases of urns) and down the stairs to a door marked “private.”
Here’s what we found inside.
The walls were lined with shuffleboard, pool and ping-pong tables and arcade machines, all free.
 
We played the nine-hole course and kinda kept score, but none of us really cared. Just being there was fun. And weird.
As miniature golf courses go, it was pretty rinky-dink. But as a fun, and strange lunchtime destination, it was amazing. Most of us drove a few hundred yards up the street to Photo’s Hot Dogs for lunch.
So what do you guys get, three hours for lunch?
sheer amazingness.