Grand Games

Bob, Fred, Gail, Shirley, and I spent Saturday morning at the Winston-Salem Miller Park Center helping with the Grand Games that are part of the kick-offs for 2018 Piedmont Senior Games. Using a couple of sets of the soft-vinyl petanque boules designed for kids and/or indoor play, we let Grandparents team with Grandchildren in one of the day's five competitions-- petanque pointing.

In addition to basketball shooting, football tossing, shuffleboard, and cornhole, petanque was included this year for the first time. It was fun helping the kids and showing everyone how petanque is scored. We set a jack about seven meters away from the throwing circle with a boule about a half meter in front of it. We then allowed a Grandparent six boules and also the grndkid six boules to see how many points they could make by beating the boule resting in front.

With a possibility of accumulating twelve points, we had two teams score nine! Pretty good for kids and grandparents alike. It was harder than it probably sounds because the "boules" were not very close to being round and difficult to roll in a straight line.

Everyone seemed to have fun trying though.
--Gary