Plaza Bowl of Clinton

I was visiting my parents and my mom used to be quite the bowler back in her day. We were looking for something to do on a Saturday evening so we decided to go bowling. I’m not sure we’d ever gone bowling together before.
We arrived about 8:15. The place was empty except for one other couple. The employee told us they close at 9 to reopen at 10 for galactic bowling so as long as we could be done by 9 then we could bowl. We only wanted to bowl one or two games so that was plenty of time.
My mom has her own ball (with her name on it — I told you, she’s kind of a big deal) and shoes but I needed to rent some. I got my regular size and they fit well. My moms shoes mysteriously shrunk so she ended up needing to rent some too. The employee put us on the lane right in front of the register and I joked oh so you can watch how terrible I am!
Since my mom is about the same size as myself I decided to try out her ball so we didn’t check out the condition of the balls belonging to the bowling alley. I’ve never claimed to be a good bowler and made everyone well aware they weren’t going to see any magic coming from me.
Of course my skills were pretty terrible to start but my mom gave me a really good tip to keep your thumb facing the ceiling and follow through with your hand in that position then it will guide the ball straight where you want it. For the most part that worked but I’m a terrible bowler so I found a way to still get a gutter ball. I came close to 100 in each game we bowled but my mom beat me both rounds. We had a lot of fun and were still done before 9.
We will definitely be back next time I visit my parents.