Entries Tagged as 'bowling'

Riley’s 4th Birthday

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments


Riley :: The 10th Frame, Appleton, WI


Riley :: The 10th Frame, Appleton, WI


Jessica :: The 10th Frame, Appleton, WI


Stephanie :: The 10th Frame, Appleton, WI


Nichol Keeping Score :: The 10th Frame, Appleton, WI


Riley & Rachelle :: The 10th Frame, Appleton, WI (Photo by Nancy)


Riley :: The 10th Frame, Appleton, WI

On Saturday, Amanda, Stephanie, Jessica and I went to Riley’s 4th birthday party. It was in Appleton at The 10th Frame bowling alley. Our old friend Chad, who I haven’t seen since I lived in Appleton almost 10 years ago, owns the bowling alley. It’s pretty old fashioned – no electronic scoring – but is kept up well, it seems. I kind of liked the nostalgia of it.

I only see Riley and her friends and family once or twice/year and it always amazes me how much they’ve grown! There’s only really one baby now, where a couple years ago it seemed like they were all babies. I just looked at the post I made after Riley’s 3rd birthday party and I wrote that same exact thing last year. Ha. Here are her 2nd and 1st birthday photos, too.

The younger kids all had bumpers on their lanes and just took turns throwing the ball down and hitting pins. A lot of them couldn’t even throw it hard enough to knock pins over, but they all seemed to have fun anyway. In our lane Amanda, Nichol, Chris, Stephanie and I played. Luckily, Nichol knew enough about bowling to figure out how to keep a running score. We checked it later on at home and a couple of the scores were slightly off, but everyone still came in the same order. Stephanie ended up winning by a lot!

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Bowling & Cookies

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

10Pin Socks

10Pin Hot Cookies & Shot of Milk

Last night we had an engineering event at 10Pin. Our new office is really close by so it’s really convenient now. I forgot to bring socks and I was wearing sandals, so I had to buy these 10Pin socks. They’re kind of cool, though. It’s nice that they have them available for purchase. Here’s another tip. The hot-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies with a shot of cold milk is the best dessert ever. Ever!

I bowled a 62 and an 80. The third game got cut off, but had 76 in the 9th frame. Not too bad, for me. Not as good as last time we were at 10Pin and I got a 95 one game, but not as bad as when we were in New York and I let off on frame 8 or 9 with a score of 16. Yes. One six!

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Hitting the Lanes

May 19th, 2007 · No Comments

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10Pin, River North, Chicago

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Joe :: 10Pin, River North, Chicago

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Chris & Charley :: 10Pin, River North, Chicago

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Alden :: 10Pin, River North, Chicago

Last week after work one day we went bowling at 10Pin. I have more photos that are on our Flickr photostream. The last time we bowled I remember I got 35 as the score on one of my games. This time I bowled a 98, which was a winning score for one game.

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Celebrating the Holidays With FeedBurner @ 10Pin

December 13th, 2006 · 5 Comments

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My Bowling Shoes, 10Pin, River North, Chicago

Monday night was FeedBurner‘s holiday party at 10Pin. Dallas didn’t bowl. He said it wasn’t his sport. Obviously, it wasn’t mine either. Our first game I got 70, our second game I got 35 and our third game I got 66, which is the same score I got last time I bowled.

There were a lot of discussions over at Chicagoist about what companies do for their holiday parties. Ours was totally laid back, but Dallas’ is always formal and on a weekend night. We skipped it this year because of his birthday celebrations. The best holiday party ever was when we took the money allotted, rented a mini bus, filled it with booze and drove to Mexico. This, of course, was when I lived in San Diego. We stopped in a few small towns along the baja coast to shop and drink more (crazy Mexican tequila shots where they tip your chair back and blow a whistle), before getting to our final destination where we had lobster dinner. It sounds fancy, but Pacific lobsters in Mexico are cheap. We also had a white elephant gift exchange that was kind of out of control after all those drinks. On the way back we had to stop at the border and each one of us had to get out of the bus, say our name, declare our citizenship and what we were bringing back. I’ll never forget my coworker practicing this over and over so he’d be sure to get it right: “Ryan Stark, United States, candlesticks. Ryan Stark, United States, candlesticks. Ryan Stark, United States, candlesticks.”

What did you do, or what are you doing, for your company’s holiday party?

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My Bowling Score: 66

January 27th, 2006 · 9 Comments

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Lucky Strike, Streeterville, Chicago

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The Leaders – Rachelle (Chicagoist), Andrew Huff (Gapers Block), Jim Coudal (Coudal) :: Lucky Strike, Streeterville, Chicago

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Lucky Strike, Streeterville, Chicago

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Justin & Rachelle’s Shoes :: Lucky Strike, Streeterville, Chicago

To be fair, our game turned off in the 9th frame and I was totally going to make it up in the 10th! ha.

Last night I went bowling at Lucky Strike with some bloggers from Chicagoist, Gapers Block and Coudal. Chicagoist, as a whole, didn’t do so great, but we still had fun.

Lucky Strike is the fanciest bowling alley ever. It smells nice, the shoes are nice and they all match (each other and all the pairs are the same style), there’s no beer or cigarette smell, there are leather couches instead of plastic or vinyl chairs, the music is good, there are no intimidating league dorks hanging around, they have every beer or drink you could imagine, thier space is huge and includes good food and pool tables and a lounge and a bar, the freaking restrooms have attendents! I don’t know. It was nice, but it just didn’t feel like real bowling.

See Chicagoist’s photos and Gapers Block’s photos.

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