Sorry for the blogging delay. Our blog is actually through Daniel's email account, so with my birthday approaching (and now past!) I was suddenly locked out of Daniel's email and therefore the blog! What a tragedy. :) Now I am back in action and hope to try and catch up asap!
One weekend last month we went on a fun double date with some of our dear friends, Michael and Bekah. They are actually moving soon, so we wanted to try and fit in some 2-on-2 hanging out time before they have left us for Texas (hey that rhymes!) :)
For dinner, we went to Flatbread, which is actually the same company as the Flatbread we went to with my parents back in 2009 in MAUI. I think I wrote about it then, but it was crazy to me to find that this delicious pizza place we went to in Maui had other locations; pretty much all in the New England area (one in Whistler BC now for you PNW-ers)! Since then I have been determined to go...and 2 years later we finally did!
Flatbread is a pretty cool company. They use all local and organic products whenever possible. Everything is homemade and all the beer on tap is from local microbreweries as well! They are also very involved with the local community and have a charity night once a week where all the proceeds go to a local charity! All the workers are a bit on the hippie side (or as hippie as a New England-er can be). Those Maui ones were hippies to the max though...of course Paia (where the restaurant was located) is a pretty hippie town...so it all fit right in. :)
Anyway, we made it to Somerville with little to no trouble. We were there pretty early for a Saturday (around 5:30/6:00-ish so there was no wait for a table. We had some delicious pizza's...2 "regular ones" (the nitrate-free pepperoni and mushroom and Mopsy's Kalua pork pie (we had it in Paia, basically like a BBQ-chicken pizza but BBQ-ed pork instead!)) and 2 specials (one that involved steak and peppers, the other had butternut squash and a cranberry sauce reduction). Everything was delcious.
The Flatbread in Somerville shares a building with an old candlepin bowling alley. So we thought it would be fun to do that too (since D and I had never been candlepin bowling before and they are much more common than 10-pin in Mass, Maine, and NH plus easterns parts of Canada, eh.) Unfortunately, the one at Flatbread had a really, really, really long wait...so we headed closer to home to find some available lanes. But first we had a [much longer than expected] detour for some froyo. I still say it was worth it, others do not agree with me. :)
We eventually made it to Sunnyside Bowl in Danvers and played 2 games!
Michael
Bekah
Jenny
Daniel
So before we went bowling Daniel and I were doing a little research so we could be better prepared for our first candlepin bowling experience. Obviously, the ball is much smaller...
And all the balls are all the same size/weight with no finger holes. You throw 3 balls per frame and you get 2 frames back-to-back per person. So in one game you throw 6 balls each turn, 5 times. Also, the pins are not cleared in between. Though that is part of the strategy, hitting the downed pins in such a way to have it knock over other pins. The scoring is also different, though that it complicated and the computer does it for you. :)
It is considerably more difficult than 10-pin bowling. According to wikipedia, the highest officially sanctioned score ever recorded was 245 (the maximum score is still 300). In the 2 games we played there was MAYBE 1 strike (I cannot remember) and a handleful of spares. Oh yeah, and a strike only counts if you get all 10 pins down with the first ball, a spare with the first 2. The 3rd is just a bonus roll of sorts; if you get all 10 pins down with 3 balls you just get 10 points.
And you still wear the awesome bowling shoes! :)
After reading through all of that, Daniel declared that he thought he would be better at candlepin bowling then regular 10 pin. I though that was funny, as everything screams more difficult to me!
Well, by golly Daniel was right! None of us got a great score, but Daniel was pretty awesome at it, right off the bat! Especially in the first game. In the second he started tweaking with his "signature style" and his scoring went a little downhill. Bekah and I were lucky if we hit a few pins in each frame...I kept pulling the ball to the right, straight in the gutter. :( We had a lot of fun though and can't wait to try it again soon!
One weekend last month we went on a fun double date with some of our dear friends, Michael and Bekah. They are actually moving soon, so we wanted to try and fit in some 2-on-2 hanging out time before they have left us for Texas (hey that rhymes!) :)
For dinner, we went to Flatbread, which is actually the same company as the Flatbread we went to with my parents back in 2009 in MAUI. I think I wrote about it then, but it was crazy to me to find that this delicious pizza place we went to in Maui had other locations; pretty much all in the New England area (one in Whistler BC now for you PNW-ers)! Since then I have been determined to go...and 2 years later we finally did!
Flatbread is a pretty cool company. They use all local and organic products whenever possible. Everything is homemade and all the beer on tap is from local microbreweries as well! They are also very involved with the local community and have a charity night once a week where all the proceeds go to a local charity! All the workers are a bit on the hippie side (or as hippie as a New England-er can be). Those Maui ones were hippies to the max though...of course Paia (where the restaurant was located) is a pretty hippie town...so it all fit right in. :)
Anyway, we made it to Somerville with little to no trouble. We were there pretty early for a Saturday (around 5:30/6:00-ish so there was no wait for a table. We had some delicious pizza's...2 "regular ones" (the nitrate-free pepperoni and mushroom and Mopsy's Kalua pork pie (we had it in Paia, basically like a BBQ-chicken pizza but BBQ-ed pork instead!)) and 2 specials (one that involved steak and peppers, the other had butternut squash and a cranberry sauce reduction). Everything was delcious.
The Flatbread in Somerville shares a building with an old candlepin bowling alley. So we thought it would be fun to do that too (since D and I had never been candlepin bowling before and they are much more common than 10-pin in Mass, Maine, and NH plus easterns parts of Canada, eh.) Unfortunately, the one at Flatbread had a really, really, really long wait...so we headed closer to home to find some available lanes. But first we had a [much longer than expected] detour for some froyo. I still say it was worth it, others do not agree with me. :)
We eventually made it to Sunnyside Bowl in Danvers and played 2 games!
So before we went bowling Daniel and I were doing a little research so we could be better prepared for our first candlepin bowling experience. Obviously, the ball is much smaller...
It is considerably more difficult than 10-pin bowling. According to wikipedia, the highest officially sanctioned score ever recorded was 245 (the maximum score is still 300). In the 2 games we played there was MAYBE 1 strike (I cannot remember) and a handleful of spares. Oh yeah, and a strike only counts if you get all 10 pins down with the first ball, a spare with the first 2. The 3rd is just a bonus roll of sorts; if you get all 10 pins down with 3 balls you just get 10 points.
After reading through all of that, Daniel declared that he thought he would be better at candlepin bowling then regular 10 pin. I though that was funny, as everything screams more difficult to me!
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