State Bowling Tournament

Friday I took the day off to go watch Micayla bowl in the state tournament. She did AWESOME, there team finish 3rd in the state. Way to go Micayla!

The one thing that really sucked was we had to stand the whole time! First of all, we left DBQ about 7:30. Tom picked up his mom and dad on his way home from work and then headed out shortly after they got here, we drove my car, it was about a 3 1/2 hour drive to Des Moines. We stopped at a Subway for breakfast on our way down, we settled for Subway because we couldn't find anything else and it was getting kind of late so if we wanted to breakfast we had to stop soon. Subway breakfast was OK, it's not a favorite for breakfast but it was good. I had a double bacon and egg with cheese on a flatbread. Pretty plain but it did the job. We got to the bowling alley about 11:30 and from what we remembered last year we had to wait in line because they wouldn't let anyone in until noon. So there we were waiting in line and it was cold, but not as cold as last year. We stood outside for at least 45 minutes if not longer. I forgot my camera so I don't have any pictures to share but we were not far from the door and Micayla was on lane 5 so she said to go to the back door and wait in line. So since we got in line fairly early we thought we'd get a good seat. Well, that wasn't the case, I think everyone who was ahead of us we going for the same seats because it was standing room only! So we've been standing in line for about an hour and now we were inside the bowling alley an hour before they started bowling and we had to stand. It was the pits, but once they finally started bowling about 1:00 all the excitement of the girls and guys bowling the time went pretty fast. Someone was saying they had 2 more rows of seats but the fire marshall came through and said it was a fire hazard and made them take out 2 rows of chairs. If they were their we would have definitely had a place to sit. Oh well.

So Micayla bowled a 192 and a 184, I think, I know it was around there but she bowled a few of her best games. They ended up in 3rd place and the team they were bowling against, or in the same lanes, were from Muscatine and they got 1st place. It was a good challenge for them and wow could they bowl. The Senior boys also got 3rd place. Everyone did awesome.

Once bowling was done we headed to the hotel we were staying at, The Drury Inn, beautiful hotel! They give each adult 3 free drinks and they have appetizers in the dinning area. Friday nights they have chili dogs, baked potatoes, salad, chip and salsa and popcorn. I had a salad since I'm not a big chili dog eater and a couple of bloody mary's and one Margarita. Yummy! Tom and Brandon went swimming and I sat in the pool area and watched them. This is the hotel that has an indoor/outdoor pool and from the indoor side you can swim underneath the wall to get to the outside. It was so cool, because it was snowing outside and they were swimming. Crazy huh? Once we got up to the room we snacked on some Uncle Dan's dip and watched TV. Tom crashed since he hadn't slept all day because he had to work Thursday night/Friday day and we left right when he got home and of course, he couldn't sleep so he was out about 8:30! I wasn't too far behind.

The next morning we went down to the lobby for breakfast, again they had a free breakfast. Scrambled eggs, french toast, biscuits and gravy, waffles, cereal just to name a few. It was delicious. We packed up and went to do a little shopping. On our way to the Jordan Creek Mall, we saw a Trader Joe's so we had to stop. We picked up a few things, a Coffee Cake/crumb cake mix that I made this morning and it was delicious. We spent a couple hours in the mall. They had a pottery barn we went through, I was hoping they had the duvet cover I want but they didn't, I will have to order it online I guess. We went to a William-Sonoma, another store I love, I bought some hand/dish soap and lotion, a new scent, Fleaur de sol, it smells like the ocean! Tom bought a bacon press he's been wanting. LOL One other purchase I had was from Scheel's, a North Face Fleece, they had a sale on them and I found one for $50 so I had to buy it. They are normally over $100 so I thought what the heck, plus I got a bonus from work, so I deserved it. We left the mall around 1:30 and head home. We wanted to eat somewhere but we really weren't that hungry yet so we decided to get to Cedar Rapids and eat at Red Lobster, Lobsterfest! That's all I have to say, it was delicious! We got home about 6:30 or so and Mom and Dad called and said they were going to the Marroco to eat supper and said they might stop by, they got here about 8:30 and left about 9:30. It was a nice visit as always. We were in bed shortly after they left.

Today was a lazy day for us as all Sunday's seem to be that way but that's OK, we love it. Tom slept most of the day since he has to work tonight. I did a little cleaning, the bathrooms and some vacuuming, that's about it. I did make that coffee cake and for dinner I made a stuffed green pepper casserole, we've made this before and it's so good! I did a little Jazzercise since we got our new DVD so we have some new routines to learn. I watched a little of the Oscars, but I'm not too interested in the Oscars so I decided to blog and now I have to listen to my music I put in for tomorrow's Jazzercise class.

I'm getting a little scratchy throat so I'm hoping I'm not coming down with something. Tom's still coughing a lot and he's going back to the doctor tomorrow. Last night, he scared the crap out of me, he started coughing so hard he almost threw up and started choking. But he was alright, but scared me.

I can't believe tomorrow is the last day of February! Bring on March and some warmer weather!