Girls Night Out

Once in a while, we as Army wives will say "enough is enough, I need out of this house and chaos", so we call up a few others and come up with our grand scheme for some Mommy time. Oddly enough, we typically have our children in tow.

We don't get to frequent regular adult female hangouts, everywhere we go must have french fries, crayons or paper cups. Usually a combination of the three. But not tonight! Tonight we were gonna think outside the box. So we loaded the kids up, and headed to the bowling alley! About the 5th frame I realized I was getting slaughtered by my 5 year old, who oddly enough had the highest score out of 11 players. (not that it was a blow to my ego or anything, lol)

As we neared the middle of the 8th frame, the computer stopped, the pins stopped being cleared and we seemed to be stopped in time. After, about 10 minutes the employees decided to impart their wisdom upon the situation. Apparently, they decided one of us didn't pay for the game so they needed to see all our receipts. Because obviously, we Army wives along with our massive trail of never ending children look like we were just out to steal a game of bowling. So we take all our receipts, stand in line AGAIN and are told to wait while they looked through the receipts and compared ours to theres to ensure they weren't 3 dollars short.
By this time, I would have paid an extra $3 and a kidney just to end this conversation.

Finally after about 30 minutes we get the go ahead to finish the last 2 frames of our game. Woohoo. Now that we've got 6 kids, ranging from 10 months to 7years who just wanted to play, climbing off seats, counters and ball returns. We can get back to "relaxing" with our friends. As we head into our 9th frame, the evening gets a little more exciting, the alley turns to Cosmic Bowling. The lights go off, the disco lights and black lights start and the party begins!

The kids could no longer care about getting a ball down a lane, because chasing blinkin lights around the bowling alley seemed to be much more exciting. Kids sliding along the floors trying to see how many lights they can catch, how well they can dance, and letting the rhythm get them.

As stressful as the evening was for the adults, I guess it was all worth it to hear "this was the best nigt of my life" from my children.

All in all, I had a good night. I got to eat terrible bowling alley food, throw balls at inanimate objects, wear ugly shoes and dance under a black light in a bowling alley. But the best part was spending the night with good friends. Who accept this evening as a normal Army style "girls night out".

The only thing I would have done differently.....stolen a pair of those ugly shoes to bronze for a mantle piece, like a trophy to prove I lived through the night.