After almost five years of working almost exclusively for West Edmonton Mall, it was time to do a project we had been dreaming of and planning for over a dozen years. The opportunity to locate in Cultus Lake, British Columbia first appeared on December 15, 1999. We made a deal to purchase an ancient mini golf, there since the 1940s. The half-acre parcel of land is ideally located in a busy recreational area. The golf was outdated and underused but had immense potential. The possession date for the property was noon on March 15, 2000. By five o'clock, that same day, the old golf was demolished and hauled away. Then the real work began. Our extremely ambitious goal was to build Giggle Ridge Adventure Golf in only one hundred days. Thankfully, we had twenty members of our skilled and experienced team to help us which made things a little easier.

During construction, the team cut, fit and welded over fourteen miles of steel. We tied thousands of sheets of galvanized lath into place. Thousands of cubic yards of soil and gravel were moved, shaped and then tamped into place. We carefully poured and troweled more than four hundred cubic yards of concrete and seven thousand concrete blocks. Two hundred and thirty litres of paint were hand-brushed and blended. We welded fourteen hundred square nuts onto the fence pickets - just for decoration. Many hundreds of feet of electrical conduits and underground piping were buried. More than three thousand-six hundred square feet of carpet was cut, fit and glued into place. Landscape design was done by world-famous gardener, Brian Minter. There were fifteen thousand annuals planted, plus all of the perennials, shrubs and trees.

Despite the spring of 2000 being unusually cold and wet, Giggle Ridge Adventure Golf officially opened on July 13, 2000 - one hundred and twenty days after we started.