Freeze this moment a little bit longer

Last night was the last night of league play at Leilani Lanes (now forwards to Sunset Bowl). More sadly, it was also one of their last nights in existence.

We decided to go out in style by dressing up to the nines. Unfortunately, some of our team had a bit of a different interpretation of "formal wear" and one person who may remain nameless (*cough*billy*cough*) wore jeans that developed alarming amounts of rips and tears as the night progressed. Luckily he was also wearing shorts underneath, so that was OK and pretty amusing, I'll admit.

I bowled terribly, being out of practice and all, but we had some incredible scoring on our team. Three people scored over 160 in the first game, even. However, we were quite annihilated by our opponents who were just ridiculously good. (note: score may be slightly inflated due to the 9-10 strike rule in effect).

I finally learned the Free Beer Guy's name (it's Nate!), and we got tickets for free games over at Sunset, which is the next closest alley and is happily open 24 hours a day. I also discovered the extent of Lucas's color-blindness:



Seriously man, what the pho?

Our ball return got stuck midway through the second game — it ate all our balls! — and we spend a good chunk of time just sort of milling around. Eventually we got moved to the next lane over and the Lane Fixing Guy stopped pretending to actually care about getting the ball return working for one more day.



So it's really over for them.

The public auction is set for April 11th, including all the house balls and shoes, the wooden lanes, the pin-setters and scorers, and an "Oxy acetylene welding set w/torch, hoses, gauges, cart". Plus tons of furniture, which all appears to date from the original opening of Leilani.

Thanks for the good times.