Beer and Bowls

August 19th, 2006

It was one of my Aussie friend’s 21st and for some reason Australians decided that even though you can already drink, gamble, drive, buy any adult video you want, smoke and buy lottery tickets, turning 21 is still a huge event that needs celebration. So, Conway had the ultimate celebration. He booked an entire Bowl Club for all 60 of us. He put a $200 tab on the bar and we paid for each of our games. It was a pretty good deal


This is a picture of me, Sambo and Conway (Conway is on the right and John you met him when you dropped me off)

Bowling is a traditional Austrailian game for older people. So the tradition is that everyone gets dressed very preppy and in all white. The guys looked AMAZING - they all dressed up for it, one of our friends even bought a woman’s blouse for the event. Other than me and Em, the girls just wore white pajama pants and white tanktops, they weren't nearly as cute as the boys were.

Me and Emily

Bowl's is similar to Bacci, but the balls are weighted, so they begin to turn as they slow down, and you roll the balls you don’t throw them.

The club was just like an old fashion country club. There were old fashioned fridges, the ladies room was all antique decoration and there were even a bunch of sweet old men who took care of us. They taught us how to bowl and served us at the bar. There were 7 courts for everyone to play on. So we drank before during and after.

This is a picture of the two old guys that taught us how to bowl



This is the boys in their white

We bowled until around 5pm, when we went for a walk to the culture fest down by the beach. Most everybody went to get food in the Culture Fest, but Em and I just sat by the beach and watched the water, it was beautiful too bad my camera didn’t work (all the pictures are from Emily’s and Conway’s cameras).

This is me testing the water


Then we found a good sushi place in town. It was a sushi train – kinda like the one in London, but the train only had 6 different pieces. We didn’t want anything on the trains – nor did we know what anything on the train was - so the guy offered to make us some. We asked for California rolls, which are called sunny sushi here, but they didn’t have anymore crab so they made them with prawns – it was delish. Then we asked for a spicy tuna roll, well they had no clue what that was. When they brought it the tuna was half cooked, so needless to say the sushi was not very good.... But I did get my Australian coke bottle there so I can continue my collection.

Then we went back to town to our favorite bar, Flynns. One of the dive masters that was on our trip showed up and we hung out with him pretty much all night. We also ran in to one of my friends from Emory, had a nice talk with him. The 10 or so of us were still in white so we got lots of interesting looks and comments. We even got in a few pictures for the local paper – we’ll see if those get in.

Eric and I at Flynns

Then we went to the bus stop some of us got pizza on the way. Emily was complaining about how much she wished she had gotten pizza just as a man walked by with a whole box and offered her a piece.
Then I saw a kid from Lawrenceville talked to him for a quick sec before his girlfriend or whoever the girl was, got mad cause we were talking about a “prep school’ and took him away, ha.

But that was our day of beers and bowls. It was a great time!