Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Bumper Bowling

It was great to have Miss Emily visit over the long Labor Day weekend. One of the many things we did was bumper bowling. This is bowling in a regular bowling alley, but they pull these little fences up on the sides of the lanes so that the ball doesn't fall into the gutter. Kind of a cool idea! Unfortunately, it's only intended for kids so the fifteen or so balls I pushed right into the gutter (and the one time I fell into the gutter) did not benefit from having those up on our lane!

Here are some pictures of the kids giving it a try.

One of the funniest things was watching Reece, who always wants to do everything all by himself, pick up the six pound ball, carry it to the front of the lane and push it while we wait, and wait, and wait for the ball to knock over a few pins.

Here is a audio-less video of just such an event:

1 comment:

Rob Eubank said...

Funny...last summer, Cindy and I took Marie and Josh bumper bowling...and I think I had something like a 185! And my ball never hit the bumpers either...well maybe it just barely brushed up against them a few times...Gotta love those bumpers! Your son, on the other hand, looks to have a great natural technique.

Glad to hear that you had a nice visit with Emily!