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My brother in law Dan would not consider this ACTUAL bowling, but a few weeks ago we had a competition between the officers and chiefs at my unit, at a FEATHER bowling venue. What is feather bowling, you are certainly asking yourself now........
Well, it is apparently something that is done in a couple locations within Michigan. One of those very few establishments is located very close to my house, at an establishment called the Cadieux Cafe. It is a Belgian inspired bar/restaurant, which has two feather bowling lanes located adjacent to the main building.
Feather Bowling involves a bocce length court that is bowed, just as the picture above shows. Two teams of six people roll those wooden cheese wheel type things towards a feather stuck in the dirt lane, creating a vertical target for each team to shoot for. Now it is just like horseshoes or curling, the team with the largest number of throwy things closest to the target earns the larger number of points. At the lanes where we played, the goal was 10 points to win the game.
We won the challenge, but I am hoping that the next time we play the chiefs in something, it is more manly, like paint ball or laser tag!
It's close enough.
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