Sorry about he delay in getting this done. I have been very busy.
I had dropped ALL of my name shirts off at the letterer to add the Logos for Elite 2 weeks prior they told me they needed 2 weeks. I called them on Weds 25th and they had lost all my shirts. I told to please try and find them. I had some old shirts I could use if I had to. Good news they found the shirts Thursday morning and got most of the work done by 5pm so I could pick them up.
4/27 started early at Sea Tac Airport decided to park the RV until gas prices get resonable. Got the airport 4:30 for my 6:15 flight. Wife dropped me off at checkin for SW Airlines. Even though I weighed my bags at home and I was under by at least 2 lbs. 2 of my bags were now overweight and the bad that I planned to use to move weight to if needed just disappeared down the baggage ramp. I moved my toiletry kit to my carryon that took care of one bag the other the ticket agent let slide. Off to TSA kingdom it was controlled kaos even at 5 in the morning. After a couple of tries I got thru the metal detector. I met a young man obviously trying to overcome his short commings. He had my carryon's pulled aside. "Are these your bags" I told him yes again as I had just told him they were mine when he annouced to the crowd "Who's bag's are these"?... Well the toiletry bag I pulled out of check baggage could not be carried on the plan because they were liquid. He would be happy to discard them or I could check them. He escorted me out of the security area back to ticketing. I went the same ticket agent that forced me to remove the item. She checked one of my carryons with the offending toiletry kit and said no charge. I thanked her and back to security.
The young boy that escorted me out was now giving someone else the treatment. I told him to have a nice day as I walked by. Finally got to my gate with 10 minutes to spare. Boarded the plan and took a nap woke up in Boise. Got my rental car and all my baggage made it. Got to the hotel about 9:30. The hotel appeared full but the young lady at the front desk said yes we are full but your room is ready Mr Riess. I got checked in and had a great breakfast Strawberry Pancakes. I go to the bowl for the practice session and was asked to bowl the pro am. This pro am was great regular scoring no 9 pin no tap scoring and it was on the burn after practice session. Well I had a lot of fun.
The practice session went well although not the way I had planned. I had watched the USBC video on how to play the Scorpian pattern and practiced on it a couple of times at Secoma Lanes. Well Jason Couch says you can't play this outside of 6. So I and many of the other bowlers are playing between 6-11. I was not pleased with the look from their so I took a walk and saw a couple or right handers and 1 lefty playing outside of 5. I went back to the pair my equipment was resting at. Chris Warren looks over at me and says "Chuck do you want to get a clue"? I said sure he tossed one up 2 board and crushed the hole. I tossed one up 2 and crushed the pins. I liked the Viper and Chameleon and the Blue Alien balls the best during practice. On Saturday the Blue Alien did not work the way I wanted I switched to the Viper. I was 4th off of A squad and 11th after qualifying ended. The semis had about the same look for me. It was fairly evident a few of the bowlers were heads and shoulders better then the rest this day. I did not make the cut for the top 8. But I got a check, one game was the difference I shot 180 instead of 230. I had the pleasure of bowling Saturdays Pro Am. My back was alot soar again and it took awhile to get the sleep Saturday night. Got the bowl Sunday in time to watch the final match's. I got out of town with no issues went ahead and checked 4 bags and paid the extra $50.
Chris Warren won the tournie and Cory Husted came in second both were on top of their games.
Next Stop Sunset in Ballard.