Last night I headed over to the apartment of some friends of Claire’s—an engaged couple I had met last Friday when we all went bowling.

During the course of the bowling last week, the couple had mentioned that they owned a Wii and that they often held little Wii Bowling tournaments on the weekends. I had not yet had an opportunity to play a Wii, so I thought that sounded like fun. When they invited me to come over last night for a little tournament, I said that I would love to come.

There wound up being like 8 of us total, though some people came later, and not everyone stayed the whole time. I got to bowl a few games, and although it’s a little weird using the controller at first (I had a bit of a hard time creating my Mii, since I moved the controller too much or something and the cursor kept going all over the place), I was bowling a few strikes in no time. The funny thing is that, while I may have gotten a slightly higher score than I ever get in real bowling, the ball still rolled in a similar fashion—namely that the ball hops to the ground and then proceeds to go fairly straight, without any sort of cool, intentional curving like you see the pros do. I don’t think I will ever figure out the curve thing, and the recommendation my mom once gave to “shake hands with the lane” in order to release the ball smoothly only ever makes me bowl worse.

All in all it was fun, and I’ll probably go do it again sometime if they invite me. They are going out of the country on vacation in a few days, so who knows when I’ll get to do it again, but it was cool to try out. The sad thing though is that my parents have actually used a Wii before I did (on the Hawaiian cruise).

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