Yesterday was a busy day.  We went shopping to get a few things for the family to take on the Hong Kong trip, and then we had a quick bite to eat at a Chinese restaurant.  After that we went bowling, which I have not done in a very long time.

I used to bowl all the time on my first ship.  I carried a 180 plus average and I would on occasion bowl as many as 20 or so games a night for something to do.  In between my first duty station and my tour of instructor duty up at Great Lakes, I broke my right wrist and was not able to bowl for several years.  Towards the end of my tour there I started bowling again and even joined a few leagues.  My scores started going up but then I transferred to a ship and did not have time.

When I went to my next shore command, we started a bowling in a lunchtime bowling league.  I usually bowled well, but I was not consistent.  I also used a lot lighter ball after breaking my arm and it did not carry through the pocket the way the old 16-pound ball did.

Anyway after leaving SWOS and going back to ships, I never really got into bowling, and last night was the first time since about 1989 that I have been bowling.  Boy did I feel very uncomfortable.  First with my bad back I do not have the flexibility to bend like I used to, and then since I am so out of practice I had difficulties getting spares, though I did get a few strikes.  I scored a 99 the first game and 135 the second game before we were ran off so the leagues could bowl.  I was pretty saddened by the low scores but at least I broke 100 on the second game.

After that we went to Slimmer’s World where Laila has been working out.  I was surprised at how many folks were there and we got a pretty good workout.  They assigned me a personal trainer and after UI explained my back injury, we took it slow and did stretching, leg and upper back lifting, arm lifting, abdominal exercises and pretty much anything that did not involve twisting of the lower back.  I even did 30 minutes on the treadmill.     

We then came home and kicked back and watched part of the first season of CSI that I brought from home.  We have also still been moving files back and forth between Laila’s old computer and her new one, so that has been slowing us down a bit on posting and doing pretty much anything else online.

Tomorrow we leave for Hong Kong and I will post if I have time.  If not I will write the posts on my laptop and post them when I get back to Laila’s in Quezon City, before I depart back to the states on Tuesday.

We will be having dinner with Eric Kwan and his family tomorrow, so that will be very cool.  After hat we will hit Disneyland on Saturday and I want to take Laila out to Ned Kelly’s for dinner one night while we are there, but we will ditch he kids that night.  Besides they will like McDonalds and all better.

Well that is it for today.  Have fun everyone, and I am sorry about the hit and miss posting.  We have just been really busy.