Bowling to beat blood cancers!

The joint was already jumping when we walked in at about 9:00 on Friday night to attend my teammates' bowling fundraiser. Carie, Angela, and Lindsey joined forces to put on a really great event. That's Carie in the pink shirt with the French braid.

Lindsey and Angela were both wearing Team in Training gear. Angela's shirt is adorable!

Of course, no fundraiser is complete without a raffle, and the baskets at this one were really nice! Ticket sales were brisk.

The bowling ball I decided to use looked like a dog had chewed on it. It certainly made it easy to pick out!

You may not recognize these lovely ladies in "civvies" (i.e., not running gear), but our lane partners were my TNT teammates Brittany and Liz (yes indeed, the Liz of Liz's Loop!). Bowling shoes are truly the height of fashion.

Soon it was time to bowl in a format called Scotch Doubles. Liz winds up...

...and delivers!

Brittany hopes the lucky hot pink ball will help her knock down the last two pins for a spare! (Yes, she did it!)

The Scotch Doubles format also called on us to do some weird things in most of the frames. In this one, the challenge was "Throw the ball through your partner's legs." That's my husband looking down the lane to see how I did. (It wasn't a gutter ball. Yay!)

Liz expertly threw the hot pink ball through Brittany's legs to pick up another spare.

Liz and Brittany are much, much better bowlers than my husband and I. Liz seems to be the most talented one in our group!

There was also a 50/50 raffle. Lindsey went from lane to lane selling tickets. I bought some, but luck evaded me.

Liz and Brittany cleaned our clocks again in the third game. They decided they didn't want to play the fourth game, so they left it to me and my husband. For the last game, my husband was "RA" and I was "LB."

Definitive proof that I am only the second-worst bowler in the world!

We had a great time, although we are frankly too darn old to be staying up until 1:00 AM. The fundraiser was a huge success, raising $2200 in one night!! Way to go, Carie, Lindsey, and Angela!