Bowling - Thai Style

Tuesday December 7th, 2004 Bangkok, Thailand

I'm writing about this much after I returned from Thailand, but still needed to get it down...

We were sitting around the bar deciding on what to do. I don't think that any of us wanted to sit around the bar all evening, so we kicked around a few ideas. I thought that bowling would be pretty fun. MBK (Mah Boon Krong) one of the shopping centers which is fairly close to the hotel has both a movie theater and a bowling alley in the upper floors ( the mall has at least 7 floors). We went off in a taxi to MBK. It didn't really matter whether we took a taxi or the sky train as the cost was about the same. One of the girls covered the taxi and I decided to cover the cost of bowling.

Now when I think of bowling alleys, I think of decrepit, run down bowling alleys with chain smoking men and women and a dingy bar and a seldom used jukebox in the vicinity. The bowling alley at MBK was clean, airy, and played club music and Thai pop. We had several options on whether we wanted to pay by the game or rent an alley for a set period of time. Doing a quick bit of math, renting by the hour was much more economical. (It actually worked out to about $50 for the four of us for two hours with drinks)

After getting our shoes, we were directed to a private area where our alley was located. It was very posh, to say the least. We had drinks brought to us and a private jukebox with karoke. The bowling was fun, I sucked, only breaking 100 one time. Maybe next time. After the bowling, we hopped a taxi back to the bar and hung out for the rest of the evening. Fun night.

Coming up, dating Thai style.