Hej from the Tennessee Swedes: Boulebar

Monica Nilsson was the person in charge of our travel policy at work. She had worked at ESS for something like 7 years. Her husband recently took a job in Bangkok, so this was her last week at work. As a going away party the girls upstairs organized a night out at the Boulebar. Boule is a game, better known to me as bocce ball. It's a pretty big past time here.

The Boulebar is a cool place. They have food and drinks in the middle section, and on either side there are boule lanes. There are few different packages you can buy, or you can just rent out a lane, like in bowling, and pay by the hour. Our package consisted of an instructor, one and a half hours of playing and a charcuterie plate.

This is Jack. He was our instructor. He was a great teacher and a lot of fun!

This was our charcuterie plate. Mmmmmm!

To start the game, you throw the red ball down the lane. It should land somewhere equidistant from each side, and if it doesn't just move it to the middle. Then, standing in the ring, toss the silver balls as close to the red ball as possible. There are some finer points, but that's the gist.

Each lane has it's own box with smooth balls, designed balls, a red ball (which coincidentally is also called a Jack) and a score board. We had three lanes and were split into teams of three. Two teams played each other at a time.

It was a lot of fun! It was easy to play and easy to learn. The games could be quite close.

We played two games and the two teams that had won with the highest overage threw one round to determine the overall winner. It was Team Michelle who won!! We got gold medals and a card to come back for a free game!