bowling
By carpenter5
@carpenter5 (6782)
United States
January 4, 2008 9:11pm CST
I took my daughter's bowling while we were in New Mexico for Christmas vacation. It was alot of fun. My sister in law bought 2 hours and we bowled just short of 4 games in those two hours. We all bowled horribly, but we laughed and made fun of each other and just had a great time.
Do you bowl? What's your average? What size ball do you use? Do you have your own ball and shoes?
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5 responses
@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
5 Jan 08
I do not bowl often, the alley here smells of smoke. I have my own ball because my husband won a ball in his last league before he moved here. He bowls well, I do not, but lots of laugh is a good way to have fun.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
8 Jan 08
We have a bowling alley here in Hot Springs that is smoke free. I think they actually all might be in some cities, because of the new smoke free laws we have here. most restaurants are now smoke free. It seemed funny being on vacation and having to walk through a smoke filled dining room.
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@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
8 Jan 08
I think this place would reek even if it went smoke free. There are places not too far away where we can go, if we ever get time off together.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
8 Jan 08
that's the problem that Mike and I have sometimes. We want to take a day off and do something together, but we can't seem to coordinate schedules to do that. If he can take off, I'll have something going on at school. or if I can get off, he'll have a meeting where he can't get away.
@ersmommy1 (12587)
• United States
9 Jan 08
I used to bowl on a league. It was alot of fun. Now we just take the kids. My daughter is 4 1/2. So now its pretty much bumper bowling. That's where they block the gutters so the kids don't have to deal with gutter balls. With the bumpers up my average has increased. LOL
@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
13 Jan 08
The alley where we were in New Mexico had a bitton attached to the scoring machine. If you had a little one bowling with you, you could hit the button and raise the bumbers and then lower them when the babies were finished with their turn. Kristen, my 18 year old kept trying to get me to put the bumpers up for her.
@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
8 Jan 08
ok...we have found a common ground! We should meet at Professor Bowl some Sunday afternoon! Or maybe Enterprise Bowl in Benton...I think it's a little cheaper. My husband loves to bowl and so do my girls. Does gabe bowl?
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
5 Jan 08
I have not bowled for some time, and I found it difficult to get shoes because of my wide feet. I was quite good, but I do not know my average because it has been years. I do know I got a few strikes. Now I am talking about five pin bowling not the one with the ten pin, as that is what we mostly do in Canada. I did beat the rest more than a couple of times, so for the times we did, and that was back in the 1970s, and I was not that athletic. I think I even beat my husband. That was before we had the boys, and we were with his sister and her husband, and I think it must have been in British Columbia, but I do not know whether it was in Vancouver or Nelson, B.C.
@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
8 Jan 08
I am not familiar with 5 pin bowling. Does it have the same rules as 10 pins? What about the scoring? How are the pins set up? Of course, there is usually a difference in rules with sports from country to country.
@shymurl (2765)
• United States
8 Jan 08
I love to go bowling. I don't always have the time to go though. Therefore I don't own my own shoes or a ball. If I went more I would have them. When I do go I usually use a size 8 ball. It takes me a game to get going. I was in the sixth grade when I learned to bowl. They taught us in P.E. My right arm (I'm right handed) was broken so I had to bowl left handed. I remember going up pulling my arm back and the ball came flying back behind me. LOL my teacher was behind me. Didn't hit anyone but I did get a look from my teacher. He didn't think it was very funny.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
8 Jan 08
oh no! that is so funny. I'm sure it wasn't funny to the teacher though. I could almost see it happening as I was reading this! We were bowling at a youth outing once, and the ball stuck on one of the girls hands, and she went about 6 inches over the foul line with the ball before it finally came off.
