30th Birthday Fun

For the actual day of my 30th birthday we got a bunch of friends together to go bowling. You may remember a similar post from Cory's birthday two years ago. It was a bit last-minute, but I decided I needed to do something for this monumental occasion.

Due to a lack of pre-planning, we arrived at West Seattle Bowl right in the middle of league night and had to wait an hour and a half to get a lane. This was a bit detrimental to my Friday morning my friends decided I should celebrate being-old-and-not-being-able-to-recover-from-drinking-as-quickly-as-I-used-to with shots.

I even did a shot at 7:22, my birth minute!

However, the timing worked out. It allowed folks to arrive and grab some dinner. And yes, the night after our major flag football victory we were all wearing our Champs shirts!

Yup, still CHAMPS!

After a couple more drinks we finally made it to our lanes.

Did you know Nick used to bowl in a league as a child? He's pretty good.

I was excited to bowl, but disappointed in my sub-100 point first round. I had to try hard to cheer myself up. Messing with Cory usually does the trick.

At least my future husband seems happy in this situation

Even with my sub-par score, I was happy to have all my friends out, especially Jamie. She's a new Mom and can't pull off late Thursday night gatherings very often.

Apparently motherhood hasn't slowed her down much

I ended the night on a high note. My second game was much-improved from my first. I think that bowling is like darts and pool: when you're sober you're terrible, after a few drinks you really start to hit your stride, then that window quickly closes and you're too drunk to even care. I think, now that I'm 30, I've got it figured out. I was in the perfect state to bowl well my second game and posted one of my best scores ever.

Although, come to think of it, I don't remember what it was... Maybe it was just the birthday fairy smiling down on me and I still have a few more things to learn.