Your Most Important Muscles

You know that saying about how many muscles it takes to smile? Well, our smile muscles got quite a workout last night, thanks to our dedicated Swim Team.  An evening of bowling was just what the doctor ordered to make us forget our troubles and laugh the night away. 

Requirements to Participate: 

• One (1) Bowling Shirt 
• One (1) Bowling Name
• One (1) rather, hmm, how shall we say this?  One (1) rather, slightly, just a little, rundown bowling alley
• Nine (9) Swim Team members

Some things you need to know about the Swim Team:

• We take bowling as seriously as we take swim practice
• It took us an entire evening to play one game (cost: $1.50)
• The high scoring game was, if memory serves, 130, and that blew everyone else out of the water

One of us (Lucky Laura) was sadly disappointed to find that you do not get to keep the shoes.

How to get the most out of bowling:

Start with a race.  This has nothing to do with bowling.  We know that and we do not care.  Here "Sigourney" cheers on her racer (who, sadly, did not win, but also did not turn around and go the other way, like Tula Ten Pin's).

Next, we began bowling.  The rules were simple.  You got a rubber eyeball for every gutter ball you threw.  "Bunny" was the winner for most gutter balls and ended up with a pocketful of eyeballs (except for the one that somehow accidentally went down the bowling lane, and, you guessed it, into the gutter, where it disappeared and was never reset). 

 If you got a spare, you got a spider.

If you got a strike, you got a Pez dispenser.  The game was made a bit more challenging during the 3rd, 6th and 9th frames, when we had to draw a slip of paper from a hat and do whatever it told us to do.  Unfortunately, there were no rules in place for accidentally throwing your bowling ball behind you instead of in front of you; there will be a rule for that from now on. 

Try bowling like a princess...

Or a construction worker...

A chef...

or while holding a Barney-like puppet (it helps if the puppet is color-coordinated with your outfit AND your bowling ball)...

And there you have the makings for a great evening of friendship, laughter, and a little bowling.  THANK YOU, SWIM TEAM!  We do not know what we would do without you.

The Swim Team: (back row) Rose, Sigourney, Betty Bowler, Lucky Laura, Alles Chalmers, Swamp Mama, Tula Ten Pin, (front row) Bunny and Alley Annie.