Friday afternoon was cold and rainy. Not exactly typical summer weather. So I just putzed around the house, getting things done. Didn't go caching since I was planning to be gone at a caching event the next day. Eric comes into the room and says, "let's go bowling!" Now this is his standard idea when he's bored. He was surprised when I said, "sure, why not?"
We went to the local bowling alley. They are running a summer special, 1.5 hrs of bowling + shoes for $5. So for $10 I got an hour and a half of quality time with my son - priceless! We split the six games that we managed to bowl - I won the first, third, and fifth - he won the second, fourth, and sixth. I wasn't sure we'd get that sixth game in, but Eric really wanted to, he was behind 3-2 in our count at that point. We had trouble getting decent house balls - the one I finally ended up with was a bright green 11 pounder with a quarter size chip in it. But it still worked. Eric had trouble getting one that fit his fingers correctly. Got to bowl, talk a bit, and just spend time with my boy.
One interesting sideline: during our bowling time, a group of 4-5 young ladies came in, dressed in formal gowns (mind you this was 5 p.m. on a Friday) and one was wearing a tiara. They spent quite a bit of time taking pictures of each other with the bowling balls, I'm not sure they even started bowling before we left, though they did have a lane turned on for them. That was a bit unusual. But of course we don't go bowling that often ourselves so maybe formal gowns are the new trend for bowling.
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