Well for the first time Ane & I decided to bowl in the Napa City Tournament. Considering we normally don’t bowl good bowlers all the time (ie. against bowlers who normally hit high 200′s and get 300′s) I am both excited and nervous.

Monday I went down and practiced… and I wonder if I should of. Sunday I had bowled league like normal and had gotten a 255, 200, 184 which is higher then I’ve ever bowled before. But Monday I was not doing that hot. But it was a good wake up call.

I bowled my first team event Wednesday with Tim. It was here I felt the best. Though my games weren’t extraordinary, I did bowl a 210, 189, 161 which was higher then my book average of 143 (must of been last years score or so).

Tonight I have a team even with my wife, and friends from Sunday League Bill & Dusty. Bill is a “lazy” bowler who always says he’s sandbagging… so I’m curious if the competition makes him bowl better. Dusty is a decent bowler when she doesn’t work herself down. And my wife is getting a lot better. She’s not the best in her Thursday Night league, but at least she’s respectable.

Saturday is going to be a long day for me as I’ve got doubles/singles with Bill starting at 9:30 and with Tim starting at 12:00. And Ane also has doubles/singles with Julia at 9:30. If we bowl good we should do well. It seems a lot of these people who bowl normally bowl a lot better then us… but we’ve been bowling better then or book averages, and we’ve got a lot of room to grow verses some of these who are close to the build from average (for handicap).

Edit: As an update the wife and I bowled our Doubles/Singles matches Saturday.  Neither of us did extremely well, but was tiring for me.  I ended up bowling 12 games all together and the grips on my main ball had gotten worn down and the ball was cutting into my finger (making me bleed all over the place) therefore that’s my excuse for my bad games… and I’m sticking with it.