Let's Go Bowling

We had a little fun last night. Our local AMF Bowling Alley offers a decent discount for member's of our gym on Thursdays. Its $7.50 per person, shoes included, for an unlimited number of games. Bruce, Stephen, Hannia, and I decided to go try it out. Thursdays are also Yoga night, so Hannia and I had to rush home from that class, change out of sweaty yoga clothes in a big hurry, and head to the bowling alley without any dinner, but we made it. I honestly have not been bowling in I can't tell you how long. I know the kids had several bowling parties back in maybe middle school....? My kids are 24 and 25 if that tells you anything. But still, we have played countless games of bowling on our Wii, so we all felt pretty confident that we would do reasonably well at the real thing. Guess what? Wii bowling and real bowling are 2 entirely different animals. We all basically sucked, and that became painfully obvious by our first frame. Zeros, gutter balls...need I say more?

But because we were all clearly sucking we decided to just go with it and have some fun. Oh there were some serious bowlers there. People who come in wheeling their professional looking little bag with their own personal ball and shoes. But whatever. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there was a decent bar and grill there. The grill was painfully, almost unbearably SLOW. We waited an eternity for popcorn. But when the food got there, it was better than we expected. Bruce went ahead and started a running tab, so we could just go up and get stuff whenever the mood struck us, so that part was nice. We went through several pitcher's of beer, and the beer was good and cold. We got hungry and ordered a pizza, and although it took forever to get to our table, it was pretty tasty. I was expecting some kind of frozen pizza crap, but this was decent. Or else we were all just really hungry and a little bit tipsy, but either way, we perceived the pizza to be good, so I guess its all the same.

We had a whole lot of laughs. Bruce sneaked up behind Stephen a couple of times to try and push him just as he was releasing the ball. That backfired on him big time.
Stephen decided to pay him back. When Bruce was up there about to take his turn, Stephen yelled really loudly "Don't MESS UP!" Apparently, it startled Bruce so bad that he slipped and fell on his rear end right there on our lane. We laughed until we were about to choke when that happened. He didn't get hurt, which is a good thing because we were all laughing too hard to ask him if he was Ok. He was laughing too, so its all good.

Anyway, noone begged any of us to join their bowling league or anything like that. But we had a really good time, so I think we will probably go back again and see if practice will improve our game. Clearly the Wii is NO help at all.