Pinheads

Jacob has gone bowling a few times in his life, but only once without using those bumpers in the gutters. His score for his solo non-bumper-aided game was 17.

Jacob ventured over to Cloverlanes last week with some friends. Now that they are all teenagers, the group is way too cool to even consider bumper bowling. All of the kids started off with numerous gutter balls - in fact most of them were even worse at the sport than Jacob. After a few frames, some of the gang began to catch on a little bit and even knock down some pins. Jacob ended up with 54 the first game and 72 the second, and believe it or not, that was the highest total for all of the bowlers.

Despite their low scores, the teens had a fun time with lots of laughs. Bowling with an actual ball and real pins was an eye-opener compared to the virtual bowling that Jacob has done recently with our Wii. And now I know why the senior citizens at our local community center love that Wii bowling so much - picking up those heavy bowling balls at the alley is way too strenuous!