Welcome to Mesquite, Nevada! It is a smallish town that likes to mimic Vegas. At least that's what we thought of it. Interestingly though it is only 25 years old. It was founded in 1984 and has been one of the towns to suffer quite a few drawbacks of the downturn in the economy. Several of the casinos there were shut down. It borders the Nevada-Arizona border. We found this out first hand one night when we took a wrong turn while looking for some place to eat and found ourselves in Arizona only a two short minutes later.
So, why were we in Mesquite? The state bowling tournament is being held there from April until June. Dwayne's team from here in Fallon were set to bowl this past weekend. D ended up bowling 9 games in one day, and his fingers were super raw by the end of the night! He bowled three games in the following categories: Team, Doubles, and Singles.
We drove down Friday evening and the games all started Saturday late-morning with the team event. We stayed at this motel: The Virgin River
It also holds the bowling alley in it so we didn't have very far to go when it was time to bowl.
Dwayne's Team has five guys on it. Here are their team photos:
Their team name was "Dickie's Nuts" and they each had their own nut nick-name.
Dwayne was Doughnut, of course, a nod to the job he has.
After the team event there was a break before the doubles and singles events. We had about four hours to kill. Well, low and behold, this funny little border town had a Popeyes Chicken joint. For those of you who don't know, D is a huge fan of Popeyes chicken. There aren't any at all in Northern Nevada. It is a very special treat he gets when we head south. So of course....we had Popeyes for lunch.
What else do you do in a town you've never been to before to kill time? You drive around until you find something to do. In our case we found: Go Karts! It was a fairly nice track. The weather was great, not too hot or windy so off we went to race. There was nobody else there which meant we had the track all to ourselves!
We looked around in a couple of stores, went back to the room to freshen up and allow D to clean his bowling balls for the next events. Then it was time for Doubles and Singles. I took my cheering position at one of the tables and ordered us some drinks. Away he went and bowled.
Yes, these are bowling pin drinks we have, they filled them with your drink of choice.
2 comments:
Oh Tiffy that looks like so much fun!
Mmmm Popeyes...
Aww I miss Mesquite! Brandon and I would go every year for a big golf tourny...whats up with all these sport tournys there??? You lucked out to go when its not to hot...that place gets killer in the summer! Looks like you had fun. Theres a nice night club in the Oasis, did ya make it there after go carts? And thats where Starbucks is too!!
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