Bowling and Birthdays

I've rearranged my work schedule so that I'm off on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The main reason I did this was to satisfy my friend, Kathy, who challenged me to a grudge match at our local bowling alley. Collage is up north of Walmart so every Friday morning, a group of us meet at Andales for breakfast at 10:30AM and then car pool up to the bowling lane for a couple of hours of air conditioned fun. They have 20 ten-pin lanes and there are usually between 10 and 20 of us bowling. The cost is cheap ($7 for three games and shoe rental) and the beer/Cokes are very cold!

We give each other high fives for spares or strikes. The scorekeeping is all electronic and these messages come up when you get more than one strike in a row. Two strikes is a double and three strikes is a "turkey". An actual drawing of a turkey comes up on the screen and we all say "gobble gobble"! Anyway, two weeks ago I had a Friday off and went bowling for the first time since last October. Kathy kicked my ass so we had a rematch on Friday. Let's just say I got my game back and she's not bragging so much anymore. LOL

After bowling, Jeff, Kathy and I went for pizza at San Remo's. One large pizza with four toppings cost only $122 pesos (about $5 each). We then headed over to Que?Pasa as Lynnda had reminded us it was Larry's ... excuse me, Sr. Fox's birthday. (Larry looks a bit like Mexico's president, Vincente Fox, so everyone calls him "Fox"). Fridays are also "Jam for the Kids" afternoon at Que?Pasa. From 5 to 8PM, Fox and a bunch of other talented guys and gals get up and play music. Last week was particulary invigorating with a great crowd and wonderful music. The cake finally came out around 8PM and it was chocolate with a big guitar on it! Ymmm ... (see http://www.quepasabar.com./ for photos).

On Sunday nights at Que?Pasa, Lynnda shows movies and since it is the cook's night off (they have the grill going every other night), Lynnda usually makes something yummy for us to eat. Last night was no exception and we dined on caesar salad and lasagna. We also enjoyed ANOTHER chocolate cake since it was Kathy's 29th birthday (again). The movie was "Pay It Forward" which had us all crying in our drinks by the end. We watched the movie on a large, kingsize bedsheet strung across the back corner of the bar. BTW, the sun just went down here about 15 minutes ago (around 8:30PM) and I saw some big, black clouds moving over the mountains so hopefully, we're going to get some rain. I'll sign off for now and hope to hear from you soon!