This Saturday marked the first of hopefully many SkeeBall matchups between Mark and Christi and I. As far as I can tell, there are a limited number of SkeeBall options in the greater Boston area, and my personal favorite is the quirky machine in the basement of Pazzo Books in Roslindale. After much planning, discussion of rules, Google invites and one glass of caffeinated iced tea to get me riled up, we finally met up and walked over to Pazzo. At first we were told that the machine wasn't in working order, but the owner went down and set us up after he saw the look of disappointment on all of our faces. So after a couple warm-up shots, we went in for best of 3. It was pretty exciting and involved a little trash-talk, but overall, a friendly game. Christi, a novice by comparison, was the sleeper tying with me for first. Mark let his nerves and the cramped quarters get the best of him. So we went across the street and had an excellent lunch and then headed over to Roslindale's finest neighborhood dive bar: BK's. We were, by far the youngest people in the place and I think Christi and I were the only women. But we got to watch some of the Red Sox game and Joe the bartender kept us in stitches. We topped it off with a little stroll through some of Roslindale's cute shops and then headed back to Mark and Christi's for a nice chat on the front porch, since it had turned into a beautiful afternoon.
From Roslindale, I headed straight to Club Passim to volunteer for Antje Duvekot, which was great. Overall, an excellent way to spend a Saturday.
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