Bowling!

So, yet again this weekend was a total blast! Jason, Molly and I (Misa was sposed to come too, but her grandma got sick) met up with some of the HamaDai kids from the festival and went bowling!
I seriously haven't been bowling in years, it was チョーなつかしい。LOL.
The participants this time were as follows:
Ai, one of our group guides from the HamaDai festival.
Naoko, one of the others that we met at HamaDai, also showed up, along with a new face--Yan, who's another Chinese exchange student at HamaDai (tho you'd never guess it, her Japanese is phenomenal). Here's a shot of Naoko (R) and Yan (L). Yan had just been showing Naoko a few pointers, cause she was actually a really awesome bowler! (I dunno, maybe bowling is more popular in China...?)
Anyway, since there were so many of us, we split up into two teams and had a face-off. p(^.^)q
It was me-Naoko-Yan vs. Jason-Molly-Ai. Of course we won! (not really any thanks to me, tho...)
Yan is an absolute hoot--I swear, she's genki enough for 3 people all by herself. She kept making fun of Naoko (who's teeny) for using a light, little-kid bowling ball, and started calling her "kids," cause that's what was written on the ball. {^0^}
Here's a picture of everybody!! (except me, cause I was taking the picture). L-R is Molly, Jason, Ai, Naoko, and Yan in the front.
By that time it was around 6 or 7 pm, so we all went to an izakaya for dinner (except for Molly, who had to go home), and ended up staying til about 11:15, just hanging out and talking and everything. Poor Jason, the only guy... LOL. It actually was pretty funny, he was getting a lot of attention. Yan kept trying to feel his hair, and then Naoko and Ai accused him first of being "meticulous," and then decided he looked like he would be a 亭主関白, which basically translates into an old-fashioned, I'm-the-ruler-of-the-house type of husband. Haha. Which Jason did not take well. (^_-)

Oh yeah, and there's more pics from Saturday uploaded to the kodakgallery.