And we're done...

We just finished our last games here at Sunset. We're contemplating coming back at 4am but that might be a little crazy. Now we're scheming to figure out how to keep our shoes. I think the strategy right now is bartering. They're charging $20 a pair, but we're going to try to get all 4 pairs for $20. After all, they're pretty old and somewhat disgusting. But they say "Sunset Bowl" on the bottom! That's a piece of Ballard history right there. And so our 4 hour bowl-a-thon comes to an end. RIP Sunset Bowl - it was good to know you.

Bowling left-handed

After Crushmonster left, we decided to keep the bumpers up in his lane and bowl left-handed. So far it's going better than we thought it would - I've bowled a spare (thanks to geometry and the bumpers) and Sally bowled a strike. I think I'm doing better left-handed than right-handed this game...

This may be our last game. Sadly, Sally and I have work to do and Polly is going to see the Dalai Lama. I suppose it's for the best - we're starting to lose momentum. Bowling doesn't seem like real exercise, but your arm definitely gets tired after a while. I still don't understand how we managed to work up a sweat bowling.

--TT

Review - The Sundowner Restaurant

When you're bowling at 6am and you need a quick pickme up at 9, what do you do? You have the Sundowner Restaurant deliver breakfast to your lane. Yeah, that's right. Nothing hits the spot while you're bowling like greasy hashbrowns, a big piece of hame, and some scrambled eggs. While not the epitome of haute cuisine, the Sundowner Restaurant fills a very important food niche and they fill it well. So the next time you're at Sunset Bowl* make sure you grab some grub from the Sundowner Restaurant.

*As long as the next time you bowl is today.

Robbed!

We're all having a rough game except for Crushmonster! After two frames he's bowling a 22. By the way, Crushmonster is 4...

We're eagerly anticipating food being delivered to our lane, apparently there was drama in the restaurant. The line cook clearly doesn't like the dishwasher, who was complaining that someone took her nametag off of her apron. The cook (also her boss) pretty much said, "Waah. Get over it." Then she proceeded to tell a customer at the counter how she had tried to fire the dishwasher but hadn't succeeded. I guess it's good that they won't be working together anymore.

These are the things you miss when you don't go bowling at 6am...

Breakfast at Sunset

TT: We just ordered our breakfast, which will be delivered to our lane shortly. I'm going to miss service like that. Maybe we'll have to come back tomorrow just to eat...

LL: TT is up now and so far she's kicking everyone's butts this game. I think hunger makes her bowl better while it makes the rest of us bowl worse. At least the music is somewhat improving.

Crushmonster is in the house!

We've now been joined by Crushmonster and Crushdaddy! Can you believe we've been bowling for two and a half hours already? This fourth game is turning out to be my worst so far and the food in the restaurant smelled a little too good. Maybe we'll order some food and have it delivered to our lane. My battery is dying so I'm not sure how many more posts we'll have.

Synchronized strikes, baby!

TT: Polly and I just did our synchronized bowling round and we both got strikes! Next time we're adding in some choreography...

Going downhill...

TT: So the synchronized bowling is starting to not work out so well. At first I was getting all strikes and spares, but the past several frames have been disappointing. Oh well - it's a worthy sacrifice to make for the entertainment value of counting off our walk.

Game 1 is in the books

After a bunch of synchronized bowling and lane dancing, game 1 is in the books. Everyone did better in lane 19 than lane 20 but my differential was much greater...142-97. We're on game 2 now and Tenpin Tessie is explaining how Wii bowling hasn't helped her real bowling game.

That's right, it hasn't. In fact, there seems to be an inverse ratio of Wii to regular bowling. The better I am at Wii, the worse I am at Sunset. Also, I have a totally different spin on the "ball" in Wii bowling. Maybe it's because there's no weight attached?

Music update: Rock Lobster is now playing so the music selection is getting better.

What you don't know is I am not left handed...

So far Lane 19 is much kinder to me.

Really, Larry? That's the wittiest repartee you can muster? Very disappointing.
Missy and I had matching splits, so we bowled at the same time and knocked down the same pin. It was much more exciting than it sounds here! Now we're listening to "Two Hearts Livin' in Just One Mind" by Genesis. Or is it Phil Collins? I'm up again...

Um, you need to refer to me as Louie Lanekiller thank you very much. So right after I said 19 was better for me I bowled a 5 in that lane and had a spare in 20. The guy in the next lane mush be wondering what he's walked into with us crazies doing synchronized bowling and TT and PP dancing right after they bowl.

Double strike!

Missy and I just bowled back-to-back strikes, and Jessie got another spare. So did Larry! We're on a roll now...

Jessie just asked them to change the music - normally it's 80's but when we came in today it was really bad soft rock. You know the kind..."the best of the 80s, 90s and today." But now we're rocking out to "With or Without You" by U2. All is right in the world again.

-Tenpin Tessie

Introducing...

Let's take a minute to introduce the players today. We've got Sally Striker, Pinkiller Polly, Tenpin Tessie, and me, Louie Lanekiller. We're currently bowling on two lanes right now to get as much bowling in as possible. Over the course of the day we'll be joined by some other bowling friends.

Live blogging at Sunset Bowl today...

Jessie wants me to title it something like sunsetting on bowling, but it's too early to be witty. We're going to be blogging live from Sunset Bowl in Ballard this morning since it is the last day of open bowling before they close. We've been coming here the past 5 or 6 weeks on Sundays at 7am but tomorrow they're having an all day tournament so we're mixing it up by coming on Saturday. Look for pictures and updates on how we're doing throughout the morning.

Louie and Sally are up. Their early attempts at left-handed bowling (they're both righty) were not the most successful moments in their bowling careers. But Louie has moved on to a strike-spare back to back.