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Bowling - 4-H end of year party.
Apr. 28th, 2014 11:42 amH's end of year 4-H party was at a bowling place.
The last time the kids and I had gone bowling was about two years ago during a visit at Grandma and Grandpa's house - there was too much rain to make it to Lego-Land so Grandma took us bowling. It was fun bowling then, and it was fun yesterday. Programmable bumpers have to be one of the greatest inventions to improve the experience of taking kids bowling.
Back in the day, when I was a kid, I got a lot of gutter balls. Halfway back in the day (when my hubby and I were in college) there were inflatable bumpers for special events where they knew a lot of kids would be bowling.
Having bumpers that could go up for the kids and come back down for M and I, made it challenging and fun for everyone. I bowled my best game ever on the first game - 126. The second two games were more my normal 94 and 92. M bowled badly on his first game and got under 100. Then he rallied and got 125 on his second game and 159 (with his first ever Turkey bowled in the first 3 frames) on the third. S broke 80 on her first game and beat me by breaking 90 on her second. C did better on his first game score wise, but I think he hit the bumpers less often on his second (he came in 4th in both the games he bowled). We had the lane for a set length of time, so M and I played the third game just us, and sped through in 11 minutes - M's many strikes helped speed things along.
H bowled on a lane with some of the 4-H kids and she said she had an even better time than if it had just been the family. C kept asking me if he was doing good, and I was finally able to answer honestly in the positive when he bowled one ball that went straight down the lane, didn't hit a bumper, and knocked over 9 pins.
Except for the sticker shock on how much it actually costs these days to bowl, I am really looking forward to all of us going bowling again.
The last time the kids and I had gone bowling was about two years ago during a visit at Grandma and Grandpa's house - there was too much rain to make it to Lego-Land so Grandma took us bowling. It was fun bowling then, and it was fun yesterday. Programmable bumpers have to be one of the greatest inventions to improve the experience of taking kids bowling.
Back in the day, when I was a kid, I got a lot of gutter balls. Halfway back in the day (when my hubby and I were in college) there were inflatable bumpers for special events where they knew a lot of kids would be bowling.
Having bumpers that could go up for the kids and come back down for M and I, made it challenging and fun for everyone. I bowled my best game ever on the first game - 126. The second two games were more my normal 94 and 92. M bowled badly on his first game and got under 100. Then he rallied and got 125 on his second game and 159 (with his first ever Turkey bowled in the first 3 frames) on the third. S broke 80 on her first game and beat me by breaking 90 on her second. C did better on his first game score wise, but I think he hit the bumpers less often on his second (he came in 4th in both the games he bowled). We had the lane for a set length of time, so M and I played the third game just us, and sped through in 11 minutes - M's many strikes helped speed things along.
H bowled on a lane with some of the 4-H kids and she said she had an even better time than if it had just been the family. C kept asking me if he was doing good, and I was finally able to answer honestly in the positive when he bowled one ball that went straight down the lane, didn't hit a bumper, and knocked over 9 pins.
Except for the sticker shock on how much it actually costs these days to bowl, I am really looking forward to all of us going bowling again.
