bowling.

P. and a. went to kyoto this weekend, so i was in charge of the girls. Saturday, m. had a birthday party and ballet, so was gone most of the day. I planned to take the other two somewhere fun. Instead, it rained all day, so we stayed home and putzed about. We did go out to dinner on stanley main street- that was lots of fun. When we woke up to find more rain on sunday, i immediately started looking for inside activities. The movies were out since there was nothing appropriate playing, but i found a place to go bowling in kowloon. I may have previously mentioned feeling comfortable finding my way around kowloon, but this place was in a completely different area that i was not sure how to get to. Since e. gets motion sickness, we couldn't take the ferry (the only straight shot as far as i could tell), but I determined that if we switched buses a few times, we could end up in the right place. Since i couldn't stand being cooped up in the house for another day, we got our flip flops and umbrellas and decided to make a go of it. Surprisingly, we got there in under an hour, and were treated to bowling hong kong style. Take a look at the sweet soccer style bowling shoes:

Some things i didn't take into consideration were the facts that the lightest ball was 6 lbs (which was big for a 35lb e.) and that there were no "kid rails" to keep the balls from becoming gutter balls. The constant scores of zero could have led to frustration and tears, but instead, they took the slightly embarrassed laugh-at-myself approach. This made the occasional 1 pin (or surprising 9-1 spare by l.) much more exciting. Look how excited we all look here:

Since we had to walk past the movie theater to get to the bowling alley, the girls convinced me to get some popcorn as a snack on our way out. They insisted that hong kong movie theater popcorn was extraordinary, and they were right. The "chocolate" sweet popcorn was easily the best i've had. Mmmm. To top the day off, we even made it home safely and went to a neighbor's party.