January 21, 2008: Five pin?
So I guess everyone, who is reading this, has been bowling before? Canada has a game called "Five Pin". Here are the rules. Wiki says this:
Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is only played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario, at his Toronto Bowling Club, in response to customers who complained that the ten-pin game was too strenuous. He cut five tenpins down to about 75% of their size, and used hand-sized hard rubber balls, thus inventing the original version of five-pin bowling.
So anyway we went to play tonight. My first time! David won the first game (he actually got 3 strikes in a row) – Joey won the second game – and I won the third game. 🙂 Not bad! Fun game. Will definitely have to go play again.
This is what the ball looks like. A bit smaller than a bowling ball.
Joey throwing the ball towards the five pins.
David taking his turn.
This was my winning game score 🙂 Not bad for my first time playing!!!
It is starting to snow. Looks like we might end up with a few inches by tomorrow afternoon. 🙂 Hopefully it will
snow in the morning…when I am actually awake.
Snowing tonight in Waterloo