Bowling Fire Alarms & Lo Mein

Striker struggled a bit on the Athens oil pattern, but since this is a marathon, we'll see how he does Wednesday. The nine games took almost 9 hours on Tuesday thanks to an odd rule, what appeared to be computer troubles, and a fire alarm. The odd rule is that all lanes started each game together, which means that if you bowled quickly (usually means well - lots of strikes means fewer balls to throw), you had to sit around and wait until EVERYONE else was done.

I drove around and scoped out parks, restaurants, and things to do. There's a great regional park (that you don't have to pay to get into - CA take note) that we'll be spending some time at during the warmest part of the day. I also found a Pei Wei, which is what we ended up having for dinner and making Striker VERY happy.

When we got back to the hotel (while Striker was still bowling), I walked in and lights started flashing, an alarm was sounding, a partition came out of the wall and shut off the hotel corridor from the casino, and some lady was making indecipherable announcements over the loud speaker. We were basically "trapped" in a corridor near the lobby. Turned out someone had pulled the fire alarm, which also halted things in the bowling center. Striker and I BBM'd back and forth sharing info. While this made his already long day of bowling even longer, I was declared the "winner" of our biggest loser contest. I had to use the restroom, AND needed to put the boys down for naps - difficult to do when confined to a small area with bathrooms not big enough for BOB.

Tony was a huge fan of Lo Mein at Pei Wei. This makes Striker happy since now we have to go there more often because "Tony likes it".