Bowling for Sactobine

A few months ago, RonTopofIt reported on the state of bowling in Sacramento. He was right, it’s not your pop’s bowling alley anymore.

Last weekend, I partook of a little three-hole roundball over at AMF’s Landpark Lanes – the closest bowling alley we could find near Elk Grove (a town that seems only good for big box shopping and big box eating). Our group spent the better part of an hour in a post Macaroni Grill-induced haze trying to find the place.

Bowling is hot in these parts apparently. These guys still only charge per game, as opposed to by the hour. After a 30 minute wait (apparently you’re better off making a reservation), for four players renting three sets of shoes, playing two games cost $44. Not too bad, I suppose.

What was annoying, other than the hip hop videos playing on the screens right above the pins, was the group of people in the next lane, whose dancing drifted in front of our lane after each time they’d bowl. I guess on Freeport, that’s just how we bowl.