The Bowlers

The last 2 weeks have been excruciatingly hot, where even the pool water isn't particularly refreshing. But the bowling alley, the bowling alley was air-conditioned and made for a good change of pace Wednesday afternoon. We went with friends which always ups the fun.

It was Peanut's first bowling experience. When the kids were making up fun bowling names, Peanut  only wanted to be called by his real name.

But when he broke his stoic stance after knocking down his first pins, and started jumping up and down, he earned the nickname "Jumper" which he happily embraced for the rest of the afternoon. At one point, he corrected me when I called him by his given name, "Call me Jumper!"

The best part of Peanut's bowling was the eyeball socks. Having eyes on the back of your legs is crucial to good bowling.

Bug, AKA "Dino", was a little disappointed by his fist game, but redeemed himself with a win the second game.

Bean, AKA "Swimmer". You can take the girl out of the pool, but you can't take the pool out of the girl. . .

 

It was a good change from the 5 hours a day at the pool (which is only a slight exaggeration.)

Bowling

Bean's first bowling experience.

I explained to her what bowling was as we drove to the bowling alley and she quickly informed me that she only wanted to throw the ball one time, not twenty times. We thought she'd change her mind as soon as we got there and she got to watch, but even after watching a couple other families with young kids bowling, she still only wanted to do it once. So we just paid for Daddy-o and I to play and I told her she could roll one of my balls (I'm really not very good so she couldn't hurt my score).

Well, first of all, they had these nice little tracks for the kids to use to make the ball roll straight and with enough momentum to actually reach the pins, so she ended up doing really well for me. And she decided she loved it. So I only got to bowl about half a game, but we all had fun. Except she did not trust us that her ball wasn't going to go anywhere while it sat in the ball return, so she either had a hand on it or held it the entire time. I guess Bugaboo didn't have quite as much fun as the rest of us.
And, as a fun side note--when we walked outside after, it had gotten insanely warm (comparatively) and sunny so we walked up to the Creamery for a little lunch time treat and then Bean and I walked home. Gotta take advantage of the warm weather whenever we get it.