We had them all to ourselves for most our time there. Not a lot of people bringing their kids to bowl at noon, although a mom and her two kids did show up about mid way through our second game.
Eryn was very consistent. 38 both games. She was a little perturbed that she guttered the last few frames of the second game after tying her score from the first game. But not perturbed enough for a third game.
We did not loft the ball. It was nothing like the night Kyle and I were there and the hipsters were running wild.
See? Smooth release.
I scored something like a 125 and a 175. Not bad - that second score is above my average when I was a league bowler. I like the Bryant-Lake lanes. They always seem fairly flat to me - lot a not of deviation ball to ball. Of course, maybe it's all sorts of deviant and just perfectly offsets my own crappy throws.
Here's at least a little bit of a loft. I was trying to catch her at it so I could report her to the waitress.
Eryn learned to score, although as you can see, she feels she needs to show her work.
After bowling, we went to Particle Fever. I took us to the Lagoon instead of the Edina, which wasn't a good plan. But fortunately, we were 45 minutes early, so we had lots of time to get to Edina. The movie was excellent - lots of first person interviews with folks who had worked (work) on the Large Hadron Collider and their search for the Higgs Boson and hope that when they found it the boson would be light enough to allow them to pursue super-symmetry rather than a multiverse, as a multiverse can preclude additional particles. I liked the quote, and I paraphrase, "Moving from failure to failure without a diminishment in enthusiasm is one definition of success." Our co-watchers were all retired guys catching an afternoon movie. The pair of them behind us were discussing their own physics work back in the day.
Eryn was impressed with the escalator at the Edina Theater. I'd forgotten it's so big for what seems like a small (four screen) theater. It goes up two floors without a break and looks like it's been misplaced from the London Tube.
Here's a big head Eryn wouldn't let me take her picture with from the Lagoon, which isn't where we went. So nothing at all to do with the events on Monday other than to show we were lost and it cost us $1.50 to be lost in the parking lot. One good thing is that I saw Origami has a store right there behind the Lagoon. I'm going to have to figure out hours.
We finished off our popcorn and chocolate with a visit to The Edina Creamery. So we had sports, fine dining, and brain activities all in the same day. A good Spring Break day, even if it wasn't traveling someplace warm.
