Let's Go Bowling

The main bowling alley in Franklin (Jaymar Franklin Family Entertainment Center) offers kids one free game of bowling every day of the summer.  I'm guessing they still charge for shoes, but the smallest size they have are toddler 8s (which is what Carter wears) but the guy working decided both kids could just use the shoes they were wearing.

I had a coupon for a $0.99 game and with my shoe rental, it came to a whole $4.33 for the three of us to bowl one game (which is about the limit of the boys' attention span).

It was so much fun!  The boys were really into it!

The bumpers went up on the lanes for the boys and automatically went down for me (I had a couple of pathetic gutter balls so I didn't think it was fair).

Carter started out with the two of us pushing his ball.

He started using the ramp for the middle part of his game.

And at the end, Carter wanted to "throw" the ball like me so we "threw" it together.

Rylan used the ramp every time and was really good at giving the ball a hard push.

Rylan was winning for awhile but Carter was the only one to get a strike.

Here are a few videos of the kids ...

We got a print out of the scores as we were leaving.  I ended up with 121, Rylan had 92, and Carter had 82.  I haven't bowled in years so I didn't think that was too bad.

No one asked who won and I didn't tell anyone.  Carter probably would have pouted for a bit that he lost and I didn't want to ruin how much fun he had during his first time bowling.