After getting back from my week-long trip to Dee-Troit, I was ready for some much needed relaxation. Unfortunately, yesterday was Burnet Road Day (an annual pubcrawl event) and I couldn’t pass it up. Though bowling wasn’t on the official agenda (only the Highland Lanes bar), my group wanted to do some bowling and I can never pass up an opportunity. I had recently been bowling at Showplace more, so I didn’t really remember how easy the shot is out at Highland, especially with the power of an intense inferno. I bowled a new high game with my new ball: 224 with no open frames (go figure). I’ve been concentrating on using the arrows more and I think it has really been paying off in my game. Things went downhill about halfway through the second game though, when “Cosmic Bowling” started. If there’s one thing I can say for using the arrows, is that it makes it a lot harder to bowl in the dark. Halfway through the second game, they turned off all the lights, causing me to throw my first open frame. I was able to eventually recover once my eyes got used to the lighting, but I still wasn’t bowling as well as I did the first game. My final score on the second game was a 188, but the interesting thing here was that I left a 3-6-7-10 in the tenth frame. Actually, the interesting part isn’t that I left it, but that I picked it up by slamming the three off the back wall and out to trip the seven from behind. You need more than the strength of an inferno to pull out that spare, you need an intense inferno. (alright, I’m finished coming up with stupid tag lines for the intense inferno).

The last game I really started to struggle either because it was dark, my lack of sleep was catching up to me, or possibly that I was working to hard on finishing my bowling pin beers to complete the rack of pins on our table. No matter what caused it, I closed out with a 158. So though it ended poorly, overall I had a 570 series as well as a new high game – 224 (with this ball). I brought my average up to somewhere around a 173.

As a result of forcing everyone to bowl an entire set, we missed most of the later stops on Burnet Road Day buy we did manage to make the last stop, the Canary Hut Pub to watch the kareoke action. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they didn’t have the usual “mopey country” songs. The highlight of the night was a guy who sang “The Three Little Pigs” by Green Jell-o. Classic. More on the Detroit trip later.