We celebrated a couple of birthdays last weekend — Assaf’s and Ellie’s — and by some odd coincidence, both were bowling parties…on the same day! This was the first time that Tom and I ever bowled together and also Dylan’s first time at the bowling alley!
Of course, Dylan loved it, and never before have I seen bowling shoes as cute as the ones he got to wear at Bowling Party #2! It was also very, very cool because you could set up bumpers for individual bowlers on the same lane!
The lightest bowling ball available is 6 pounds, so we helped Dylan carry it over to the lane (mostly so he wouldn’t drop it on his toes!) and then he’d give it a good push…Without any assistance, it took the ball approximately 1+ minute to make it all the way down the lane!
Poor Tom, who is a fantastic bowler by report, was bowling injured — he still is nursing a sore hamstring and the steri-strips from a knife cut he got just 2 days earlier were still on his hand — and I was bowling pregnant, so neither of us had our best games. In fact, Dylan played a better game than I did!
Ellie’s bday was another awesome bowling bday party. It was at a bowling alley in San Jose which had a Back 9 room for private parties. We had 9 lanes all to ourselves, some set up with bumpers and others not. Mark and Yu-chen were also super awesome about bringing Ethiopian food for us to eat and serving a vegan birthday cake to their guests (we are forever grateful and feel so lucky to have such thoughtful friends!)!
Dylan got an awesome party favor — a Spongebob Squarepants bowling bag with a bowling set, Spongebob soccer ball, and inflatable soccer ball all stuffed inside! He has been setting up his pins in his “bowling alley”, the hallway near our dining room!
