Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Birthday Bowling Ali!

Saturday 23rd September

It's party time again. This time Ali's 34th, sorry 24th birthday. Starting quietly in the new favourite hang out of the Hawley Arms. (Whose that in the corner? Is it another media has been?) We had a couple of quiet drinks here.

We moved on to the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes for the Pins and Needles club. There were few bands playing tonight, and the place is a lot busier than it was last time I came down. We're not booked to Bowl til midnight, so we have a bit of time to kill.

All Smiles from the Birthday Girl. The game is to see how many White Russians the body can take....

Keeping with the Bowling Ali theme, I bought this for her birthday. The game is Strollin' Bowlin'.

Great fun, with a wind up bowling ball with little feet, you position it and hope it strolls towards the skittles. (And it all folds up afterwards into a handy little case.)





Ali was very excited to be Bowling for her birthday, so much so she even bought along special bowling socks. Question is would they bring her luck?

Shiny shiny socks!

Aren't bowling shoes great!


There ended up being much starting and stopping... our bowling lane had a breakdown at our excellent bowling skills, and so we had to move to another lane. Scores were lost, twice. Who was the winner in the end...?

I think the winner in the end has to be Ali. There are vague memories of her getting a Strike, which is more than most of us achieved.

Post Ali Strike celebrations.

And somewhere amongst this we did some indie dancing, drank more white russians that scientists would say is possible, and had some good old fun.


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