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| - I like pairing beer drinking with cardio. Often that's achieved through Beyonce-like* dance moves, but sometimes I need to switch up my routine.
Enter Bathurst Bowlerama.
Getting here is a bit of an adventure as it's north of the downtown core. But the effort does not go unrewarded if you, like me, seek out traditional lanes. Think: casual vibe, Top 40 hits blasting, and no judgment if you throw several consecutive gutter balls. Affordable hourly rate compared to downtown options (if memory serves: $28/hr), clean shoes and, if anything, *over*staffed behind the counter and snack bar.
Saturday night the lights are dimmed, and the disco lights come out.
It's a standard ritual: you mash the buttons at your scoring screen (it's endearingly old-school), you don your amazingly retro footwear, and...you throw down (the lane).
On several occasions I have told friends that I would like to host future bridal and baby showers here. Time will tell if I'm joking.
Yelp note: there are "lady balls" available for, presumably, smaller hands (/arms that haven't seen the inside of a gym for a few months). They are stacked just around the corner by the shoe pick-up/drop-off.
*author's mental image, but perhaps not the reality for onlookers
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