During our last ELT meeting we talked about what we wanted to do and how we wanted it to run compared to last year. What changes we wanted to make, what kind of flow we wanted, donations for prizes, baskets for the silent auction, etc. It was basically going to run about the same as it was last year except we sold more tickets this year.
Our relay team, Yelm Dental/Blue Brigade, wanted to do a basket for the silent auction just to earn some extra money during the event. We had a hard time at first coming up with a basket theme. A few days before I thought of a perfect theme for a basket. Since there are so many people drinking wine, why not a wine basket? I proposed the idea to our Facebook group and everyone liked the idea. We divvied out the items. I bought a wine opener and a wine pourer. Mom provided the basket and a sign, Trish bought some wine and Ashley provided some chocolate and some wine. The Saturday before the event we drove out to Tenino and dropped our stuff off at their house.
I sold 4 tickets and mom ended up selling her 5. I sold mine to myself, Ben, his mom and sister. I invited my friend Suzanne but she couldn't come so I gave it back to Nichole. Mom sold hers to herself, grandma, dad, Jackie and Sally.
That morning Ben and I stopped at Safeway so we could have some cash to pay for our tickets plus we needed some more paper towel so I got a few of them and got cash back. Then we headed into Rainier to pick up grandma. Mom had called earlier asking me to do that because she had to go early and she didn't want grandma to sit and wait a really long time. I told her sure. When we got there she was all ready to go with her bowling bag and shoes.
We got to Prairie Lanes about a half hour before our session started. We took the afternoon one because we are terrible at getting up on the weekends especially in the fall, winter and spring times. Summer I get up early because I love the sun and dry weather and it doesn't stick around very long. We must take advantage of it! I turned in our money and got my size 7 bowling shoes. We were told we were going to be on Lanes 1 and 2.
I am terrible at bowling. I might go bowling once a year if that. I definitely didn't get the bowling genes from my mom's side of the family who have been in major tournaments in Reno and have won prize money and trophies. If I break 100 that is considered a good game in my books. I was just hoping to break 100 and have a good time. A strike or two would be nice as well.
We entered in our names to the lanes. I was Enforcer, Ben was Sir Freckles, Trish was Trishy-Poo and Amy was the Amynator and mom was Suzy Q. It was fun to have random names like that. The first game was everyone's warm up. I was glad I wasn't the worst one at bowling. I actually didn't do that bad. I had a few strikes and I picked up some of my spares which I struggle with. I didn't do that bad in the first game.
The second round was a different story. I didn't pick up as many of my spares as I would have liked to but I had a strike and I broke 100! Grandma on the other hand destroyed us all with a 170. She ended up getting the highest score of everyone and won a purple bowling pin with highest score written on it. She also won a prize with the prize train. Ben also did in our group.
We made it through two games in two hours...about an hour a game when you have this many people bowling in your lane. We returned our bowling shoes and everyone thanked us for coming and we thanked others for coming as well. Mom had to stay behind to count money with Kim upstairs and run it to the bank. Our small group wanted to have dinner somewhere before we all went home. I found out Mr. Doug's was open on Sundays so we collectively agreed to eat there. Grandma and Ben rode with me and Trish and Amy followed us. Mom had us order for her once we got there. I had to wait, which seemed like an hour, to use the restroom. There was a huge group of parents and tween softball players eating dinner and of course all of them had to use the restroom all at the same time.
After I finally got to use the bathroom, I went back to our table and everyone wondered if I fell in. I told them I had to wait for the entire softball team to use the restroom. It was perfect timing because our food came shortly after and mom arrived just in time to eat her food fresh. We chatted about random things as we ate. We paid our bill, gave out some hugs and we all headed home.
When Ben and I got home we did laundry, the rest of the dishes and tidied up the place before settling down for a movie before bed.
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