Bowling for Ben

For Ben's birthday we took the whole family bowling.  Alex had bowled before at a birthday party but this was Maya's first time.  The bowling alley has automatic bumpers (which are so nice, you program which players want to use bumpers into the scoring computer and then they raise and lower as needed depending on whose turn it is) and they also have these ramps that smaller kids can use to roll the ball down and get more momentum.  Of course Maya deemed herself far to mature to need such a thing and insisted on throwing it herself.  We never got the ball stuck but there was more than a few times that everyone around us was holding their breath to see if the ball would actually make it the whole way!