Thanks for the festival, Augusta!

Wow, what a great opening weekend in Augusta! I'd like to thank the city for holding the Arts in the Heart Festival just for us this weekend and getting so many people downtown to check us out. ;-)

The store was pretty busy from Friday night all the way through Sunday afternoon and it was great! Both experienced players and people who had never heard of disc golf were coming through the doors.

I had some good recruiters - a couple of kids from the neighboring stores seemed to always be out front either putting or spinning around the basket rattling the chains.

I also have to give a huge thank you to the newest Friend of the Hive, Taylor McK, who hung out we us Friday and Saturday folding shirts, moving stuff around, and talking with customers out front. Every time someone asked me about a local course, Taylor was there with an answer (I've only played each course once so far!)

We had a number of local downtown residents and shop owners stop in and thank us for helping revitalize downtown and even more golfers in general tell us how awesome it is to have a disc golf shop in the area again. We are glad to help and look forward to many years down here!

Overheard
One of my favorite comments of the weekend was from an older woman who had never heard of disc golf who said, "Is that where you throw a Frisbee and pretend you're playing golf?" I dunno, it just made me chuckle.

Here are some other favorites I heard:

• "There's actually a disc golf store!"
• "This is fun!"
• "My girlfriend made a mistake when she showed me this store."
• "This is the first disc golf store I've ever been in!"
• "I don't remember seeing this store. When did you open?" Three days ago. "Ahh, that explains it!"
   
• "A disc golf store? Oh. My. God."
• "Is it okay to bring beer in here?"
• "I like to touch them all." 
• "Look! It's a puppy!"

Killer B Dog was pooped by the end of Sunday