Four bowlers from BLBC escaped winter blues in February and flew to Honolulu for the annual Aloha Barefoot Bowls tournament.  The two teams from BLBC, July Hillyer and John Gardiner (dual/SFLBC) and Patricia Erwin and Janie Hillyer were joined by another PIMD bowler, Janee Hunt from Oakland LBC, and competed in a pool of 24 teams with bowlers coming from Australia, British Columbia and California, and of course Hawaii.  The beautiful setting of the green overlooking the Pacific Ocean and steps from a beach greeted us as we practiced and worked on adjusting to the green.  

Bowlers were broken into 2 different groups for the fun, social tournament with fast-paced 6 end 3-bowl pairs games.  On the third day the top 8 teams, which included Judy Hillyer and John Gardiner, came together for the finals.  The fast-paced games continued in the finals, and when the last bowl came to rest Judy and John took 3^rd place, the only team to place in the top 4 that was not from Honolulu. Well done John and Judy!  The fun tournament with great food, lots of socialization and a luau was a great opportunity to meet bowlers from many different clubs and make some new bowling friends which came with invitations to join them at their greens.