No school = Bowling!

A couple weeks ago, a friend let me know about a free summer bowling program. I signed our family up right away figuring it would be a great option for those "I'm Bored" summer days. Little did I know we would be able to take advantage of the program before school was even out! Wednesday of this last week, I got a call about 10:am from the school asking if I was Jaco's mom. That made me nervous! The caller then told me they were shutting the school down due to no water and she needed to know if Jaco and La-La should ride the bus or if I would come get them. I opted for the bus route and then wished I would have picked them up after waiting for nearly an hour at the bus stop! I guess there was a leak somewhere in the water lines under the school so they had no water to wash dishes, get drinks or flush the toilets. School was cancelled for Thursday so I decided to try the free bowling with the kids. I figured since our little elementary school was the only school out in the whole district that the bowling alley wouldn't be too busy with all of the other "bored" summer kids. The girls have never been bowling, Jaco had done it once with scouts and I am far from good at it so I was a little nervous to attempt it by myself. But the kids did great! The program pays for 2 games and we had to pay for shoes which was $8 for all of us. Next time I think we will only play one game because the kids, especially Care Bear got bored with the second game. La-La got a lot of lucky shots and if it weren't for the bumper pads, we all would have had a ton of gutter shots! Jaco got really mad when Care Bear hit the reset button so he didn't get to roll his second ball. He also discovered that he scored better when he took a terry cloth wrist band off his arm! Once I accidentally bumped Care Bear's head with her ball as I helped her roll it and she informed me that if I ever hit her again with a bowling ball that she will never bowl with me again. Like I meant to do it! I got in trouble for passing the "do not cross" line while trying to retrieve a ball that wasn't going to make it all the way to the pins. Oops! I just didn't feel like waiting for the little old lady to come get it for me. But she sure moved fast when she was getting after me!

p.s. The kids missed school again on Friday, which was supposed to be La-La's last day of kindergarten, but from what I have heard, the leak is fixed and school should be back in session tomorrow!

Here we go! Game on!!

Phew! Are you sure this ball just weighs six pounds? It is HEAVY!

Mom, Me can do it by myself!

I can do it! Plus look at how great my curls look!

Check out my form! And take notice of the wristband that did not help my score!

Here is a video clip of the funniest moment of the game!
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