fitness adventure: bowling?

In keeping with my last post about this blog not going dormant again, today I decided I was going to walk somewhere that was not my neighborhood.

I emailed my friend Angel and asked if she was off Thursday. Maybe we could take the tween and do the Doylestown walk. She wasn't off, but we made plans to to the Doylestown walk that afternoon. As soon as the tween returned home.  Upon her arrival home, tween drama ensued at her house and the walk was cancelled. I was determined to walk so I headed to Lehigh instead. Alone.  Of course it was empty. Everyone is on winter break. I stopped to take a picture of some ride-share bikes. (How cool is that? And are they only at the colleges?) It was then that I saw I had a text from her. They could go walking, or something on a smaller scale. I headed home to go walking with her.

By the time I arrived home the walk was cancelled again. Later an email arrived. Do you want to do something else? Drama is over.

I sent a list, and she picked bowling. We went near my house to a place called Revolution. I think it is part of a chain. It's in an old movie theatre.

The last time I was in a bowling alley must have been 25 years ago. I think it was at the Parkway Lanes. All I can remember is paneling, darkness, the smell of stale grease from the fryer, and a cloud of smoke from people smoking. I did poorly. We, or Glenn, wrote down all the numbers. I think Eryn was about 12. And maybe Megan was there too. Or maybe his step-kids. My score was a 28. For the entire three games.

Revolution was much different. Clean, bright, smoke-free. (Well everything is smoke-free in 2016!) It had a bar and a restaurant. The prices ($4/pp, per game) for bowling were about the same as the vintage place on Stefko.  On a Wednesday at 4. We had to wait for a lane. Good thing there was an arcade! Tween loved the arcade. I even played Skeeball. Haven't done that in even longer. But I think we got sale prices on the tickets. Maybe it was some sort of Christmas break price. For the three of us, with lovely shoes, it was $28 for three games.

We played three games and my arm was tired, and my one finger hurt. I am certain at least one side of my body got a good work out.  My total for all three games was 230! And I got a strike. Amazing.

Was this a fitness adventure? Probably not. But it was fun. I shouldn't wait another 25 years to do it again.