New to me alley : Central Lanes in East Boston

Well Garvey and I have been talking about checking this place out forever. After an acquired living social deal for blackstrap BBQ in Winthrop we decided it was time to finally go.
We called and there was a busy signal so we decided to drive by on the way back. The place was dark and the locals were hanging inside, we were the only ones bowling for a while, but it was a super cool place.

















Well all of a sudden music was blaring on the touch tunes and I honestly felt like I was in an 80s movie (aka my dream).

The pins had pretty good action and they were reasonably priced. Soon a couple came in and the sounds of pins flying were pretty loud. After 3 strings we decided to head out. I bowled my best game in a while with a 106.






I'm very up and down when I bowl. Dumb pain and being tired.


Hopefully we will be back in the future!

Cape Ann lanes in Gloucester -review

Well Garvey and I finally used his groupon for Cape Ann lanes in Gloucester. We made the trek up 128 and finally arrived.

Here are some pictures of the alley.












Time to bowl!
















We bowled a ton of games in our two hours there. I ended up raising my average by .75!

It was a very clean alley with a friendly staff. The pins had good action, but the scoring system was hard to operate. I also did a yelp review on them. You can check out my reviews on the bottom right side of my blog!

Wakefield bowladrome

This was a new alley for Garvey and I. This place was awesome and goes into my top candlepin alleys.
We walk into the alley and it was pretty big and really clean. There were two other groups bowling and everyone was really having a fun time.
It was 16/ hour and that's a good price. Garvey and I can bowl quickly and we were expecting to get at least 3 games in. The guy that worked there was so friendly and it's a nice change to deal with friendly people.
I bowled an 85,95,101, and 102.
I can't wait to go back

Friday night bowling alley review

Tonight Pete and I wanted to go bowling, but I wanted to go to another new alley. I decided that East Bridgewater wasn't too far to drive so I decided that we were going head there. After dinner we drove over there and it was surprisingly empty. Usually on a Friday night bowling alleys are crowded and annoying. We walked in and the guys working at Viking were super friendly and offered to turn on fun lights or music for us if we wanted. An episode of Criminal Minds I haven't seen was on in the background so I was a little distracted :P The only bad thing about this place is that the pins didn't have a ton of action so it was a little discouraging at times. It was a clean alley and also had an arcade room and offered lottery.
Overall I give Viking recreation center an 8!
The lack of action in the pins was the only thing that brought it down from a 10. The guys there were so nice I wish I could have brought a million people in there to give them the business. I'm hoping we just went on an off night.



Secret picture I took of Pete ;)