House Hunting Obstacle Course

Em (wife) and I were somewhere, and we were looking at mobile homes, and considering buying one. The homes we were looking at were already in a neighborhood, and most of them were yellow. It was very overcast out, but not rainy yet. Even though this neighborhood was big, it still had the feel of being out in the middle of nowhere.

We wound up parking and going into one, and it had some very strange features. First of all, it had movable walls. You could put them wherever you wanted to make the rooms you wanted. Also, this place was huge. It wasn't like a mobile home. It was almost like a mansion or something. It was probably 4000 square feet and mostly all on one level. While looking around through the living room, which had a bit of a western corral or bar theme to it, I turned to my left and found an entrance to a glassed in porch.

The glass had the same feel that some restaurants have where they have a section off to the side that is more porch like than part of the restaurant. The glass slanted inwards, but not very steeply. The whole area was probably three stories tall, and it was dark and rainy out.

As I went onto the porch, I saw that there were rides from an amusement park in there. I don't remember specifically which rides they were, though. As I looked off to the right and down through this narrow (30 feet wide) but long (over 200 feet long) porch, I saw that down at the other end there was a bonfire area.

I also found some red leather recliners and sat in one. I know that there was something about it snowing, but I'm not sure if that was inside or outside. Also, once I got into the recliner, there seemed to be kitty litter that was coming from some machine. The machine had the feel of being some sort of game or amusement and had spinning parts that lit up. There was a LOT of kitty litter coming from that machine. So much, in fact, that sitting in the recliner caused me to be mostly buried in it. There was someone else there in a recliner with me, and he was having trouble staying afloat in the stuff, but he was still kind of laughing or having fun.

Em and I left, and we drove through the rest of the mobile home park. It was feeling less like a mobile home park, though, because we kept seeing all these two story houses around. At one point we also passed under a railroad bridge. The road that went under it was just a two lane blacktop, and after leaving the park, it curved sharply off to the left. This area almost acted as a gate to the park. The track and bridge were up on a solid ridge of some sort, either man made or just a natural ridge.

We eventually wound up at one of the Medieval Times restaurants. In order to get in, there was an obstacle course that had to be run in order to prove your "worth" or something. Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11) was trying to get through it, and he was very winded. It was like I was watching him from some sort of observation windows that showed a very mechanical course below. The course had things like conveyors, swinging things to avoid, and stuff like that.

I was with a group of other people. We all made it through this course fairly easily, but afterwards we were in this elegantly decorated room with white marble and fine rugs, and we were stuck. We had taken a fork in the pathway earlier, which was marked with a heart/club set from a deck of playing cards. There was a presentation of a number of small images in a grid formation over on one wall. The grid may have been about three by three feet, and each image about four by four inches. We were supposed to press one to be able to continue. I believe we only had one (or at least a very limited number) of chances to get it right. We had known at one point which one we were supposed to push, but we no longer remembered.

Then one of the women there speaks up and says that she remembered that we were supposed to push the "South Park" block. She did so and the grid opens up to a three by three foot doorway that we have to crawl through. We wound up having to go through the same obstacle course again in order to get to the main eating area. The second time around, when we got to fork in the hallway, we took the side that was marked with the diamonds/clubs.

Em and I got into this big eating area with large round tables. It had the feel of one of the rentable conference rooms at a hotel, and we found the table off to our left in the back corner where her parents were sitting. We sat there with them and waited to eat.