I must say, it's interesting to see how people react when we say we're in a bowling league. People seem to automatically assume we're awesome. (We apparently even had some people from Karen's work fighting over us to be on their team at their work party.) But... we're really not that amazing of bowlers. Seriously. After the first week of the league, we were in last place. (Though we somehow won last year because of our super high handicap. Which was really funny, because we had no idea we were doing so well because we didn't understand the whole handicap thing. All we knew was that the other teams kept scoring higher than us each week, so we figured we weren't doing that well. Someone eventually explained what was going on, so all the other teams taking note of who the Queen Pins were suddenly made sense.) And I am a terribly inconsistent bowler. It's a bit frustrating to me, though I still have plenty of fun. This week, I scored 104, 73, and 111. Last night when I went bowling for Karen's work party, I got 128 in the first game (and even within the game I was a bit inconsistent... getting a spare or strike several frames in a row, and then bowling into the gutter the next frame). We weren't quite able to finish the second game (the place was rented for two hours, not two games), but I ended the ninth frame at 65. Oops.
However, what's rather exciting (and what I really wanted to share) was last week's bowling... our first week of the league. That week, I got 81, 99, and then finished off the night with a 150. No idea how I managed to get the 150. It's the highest I've ever scored before. But I took a picture for proof. (Actually, Karen took it for me, since she brought her nice camera.) And I was super happy because I got to check another thing off my 101 list! (I wasn't sure if I'd be able to check that one off... but woot!)
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Hopefully I'll be able to become a bit more consistent of a bowler this season. But if not, at least I'm having fun!
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