About every two years I get invited along to go bowling somewhere. Usually, I give in (without much fuss) and try to have a little fun down at the alley. However, because I pretty much stink at the sport, it is hard to do. This is especially the case when the people you bowl with claim they aren't very good bowlers - then, just as soon begin to each get three strikes in a row, including the person you are dating.
After my fourth gutter ball (follwed by a fifth, sixth, and so on...), I realized that it may also be the choice of rental equipment that was holding me down. I was using the same bowling ball that the three men I was with were using. The lightest ball we could find, an eight pound pink marbled, had a thumb hole I could barely get my pinky in. I actually bowled with it for the first frame and the thing managed to pull my thumb out of the joint momentarilly as it left my palms. Giving up the pink, I had to settle for an 11-pound green pea thing for several more frames. Shameful frames at that.
My sixth frame complete, I went to go look at the ball racks for something in the middleground and settled for a 10 pounder. As I brought it back, the boys began eyeing it and ended up using is a great deal also during the last half of the match. Therefore, I still think I was bowling with a ball slightly too heavy for me. But that probably can't completely explain my 30 point game.
The bowling alley we went to was very nice, it was called Sea Bowl. Located in Pacifica, CA, Sea Bowl offers well lit lanes, video scoring screens, a nice enclosed bar area, and decent requisite bowling alley food. We settled for two pitchers of MGD and one order of garlic curly fries. I would have tried the hot dog, but I am now vegan until sometime this summer I finally feel cleansed and healthy.
Sea Bowl is expensive. It is $25 and hour plus shoe rental, which sets each person back about $12 not including beer or food.
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