Isaac was SO excited to go bowling for the first time. Luke took the day off work so we wanted to do something special (like a mini stay-cation) so we thought bowling would be fun. Isaac was finally old enough that we wouldn't have to wrangle him in public like we've seen so many times in our past experiences at the bowling alley.
We got there and he was stoked. They had a "summer deal" you could get 2 hours of bowling, shoes, a personal sized pizza, a drink and even some arcade tokens all for $10. We don't do stuff like this very often so we went with it. By the time you got done paying for individual games and shoes, you've pretty much spent that much anyway.
First came Isaac's bowling shoes. He was hesitant to put them on, but once he did, he LOVED THEM! At the end of bowling, he begged us to keep them. Ha! Sorry buddy, but the first time we take you bowling, we're not including petty theft in your afternoon of fun. He was ok with that but he was sad to give his snazzy shoes back.
We bowled two games, ate our pizza and even got some cheese fries. The cheese fries hold a special place in my heart because they were one of my main food cravings while I was pregnant with Isaac. Not just any cheese fries, but the cheese fries from THIS VERY bowling alley. However, they'd changed the fries so they weren't the same. **sad face** Isaac still approved and dove in, face first, to all his junk food.
During the first game, Isaac made the classic mistake that every child seems to make... he drops the ball not hard enough to roll all the way down, wants a "redo," and tries to chase it down stepping across the fowl line. Yep, before we could say anything or stop him, he was on his back. He slipped because, of course, the lanes were nice and waxed and slicker than owl snot on a door handle (as my Dad would say... and why owl snot is slicker than other snot, I don't know. It's just what was said.). So of course, Isaac was startled, embarrassed and cried. He's an emotional kid, so this isn't anything out of the normal. We got him calmed back down and continued on with our afternoon.
After bowling was over, we headed over to the arcade. We each had $3 of arcade tokens to burn, so Isaac was in HEAVEN! He rode a motorcycle game, played basketball, and I introduced him to the classic arcade game of ski ball.
After everything was all said and done, he had tickets. Oooooooh, did he have tickets. I was used the the old school way of taking your tickets to a counter and endlessly debating on what cheap trinket to trade them all in for. Nope, these kids have it different. They have prize machines now. You feed your tickets in and then you have the confusing process of rotating a spinner of prizes until you select what you want. Yes, I'm getting old.
Isaac had his eyes set on a yellow race car. It was apparently the holy grail of race cars. Ok, whatever... they were his 75 tickets, so he could get whatever he wanted.
...until I screwed things up and pressed the wrong button...
...and accidentally selected a pink Disney Princess kaleidoscopic instead...
...and there came the water works... again.
Oh well, life is full of disappointment.
...is the lesson I would have taught him if his dad hadn't offered to take him to Walgreens to get a yellow car since Mom screwed up. Ha! Well, we didn't want to end our "Day 'O Fun" with tears and disappointment, so he actually found a little Ironman toy on clearance which kept him busy for the rest of the afternoon and this morning. Needless to say, he forgave me for my mistake.
All in all, the day was a success.
The first thing Isaac asked this morning was if we could go back to the bowling alley.
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