The Tradition Continues Once Again...

The Fritz Bowling Invitational is one  of my family traditions that has grown over the years.  When I was younger, much younger say 12ish, my mom and dad were tiring to find fun things that we could all do together on Christmas Day.  They wanted to spend the day as a family with out all the bitchin' "Why can't I go play with my friends, just cause its Christmas", "I am so bored", even after they spent hundreds of dollars on presents we would be our ungrateful selves.

After a little bit of research, Mom found out that the movie theater and the bowling alley were both open on Christmas Day.  So we started going to a movie and then bowling.  After a couple of years other Fritz families were invited to come with us.  After a while, we could never agree on a movie that everyone wanted to see so we focused on bowling.

Eleven years ago, my brother-in-law, Jamie, decided it would be a funny gift to give my dad a trophy and hence the Fritz Bowling Invitational was born...

The original trophy (right) and the new addition (left)

 since we have out grown the original.



 Bug resting between frames.  Nana in the background is helping

all the little ones at bumper bowling. She has claimed this as a new

job so she doesn't have to bowl anymore.

Little Bug enjoying the thrill of a great ball.

If you are lucky enough to be invited to participate in the Invitational, we get two see quite a spectrum of bowling techniques... there is the "Single Hop" by Jerry Fritz, the "Special Squat" by Lora Fritz, the "Tip-Toe Ballerina" by Lynn Duncan and you can't for get the "Super Spin" by Ryan Fritz.  Now don't think you have to be a perfect bowler by any means, for the two game series the top score was by David Conner with a 402 and I don't even know what the winning low is I guess I will have to look next year.

The winner does get to have their name engraved on the trophy and keep it for a year until it is needed next Christmas.  This year was a repeat with Little Bro, Ryan bringing it home once again!

Uncle Ryan won again for a repeat.  He is striving for a 5 peat. 

We will just have to see how that goes!

Great Job!

'Til the next adventure...