Chuck E. Cheese

A few thoughts on Chuck E Cheese:

1.  It's overpriced... but what isn't these days???

2.  You spend $30 to play games with these tokens, and end up getting a crazy straw, rub on tattoo, and a pack of smarties.  You'd have to spend $300 in tokens just to get a cool $10 water gun.  

3.  It's like crack for kids.  Once they start, they are addicted- just keep reading and you'll see what I mean....

4.  It's safe!  I loved the fact that they stamped all 4 of our hands with a special ID number, and checked our hands to make sure we had our kids.  I was impressed :)

5.  Kids are scared of Chuck E Cheese, himself.  There is a robotic Chuck on stage.  If we got close to it, Henry would climb up my leg and hold on so tight, with fear for his life.  Wade and Alaina refused to get their pic taken with the real Chuck walking around the place.  Maybe when they get older :)

But, here's our story of our night out with CEC:

It all started out with great intentions!  Wade slept in his bed all night for 5 straight days, so we went to Chuck E. Cheese.  Here's how it happened:

My dad cut some Chuck E Cheese coupons off of a juice jug for us.  Thanks dad! (This place is EXPENSIVE, and if you know me, I'm a thrifty shopper, and was excited to see this place offered deals!)

We invited our friends, Chris and Mandy along with their 2 kids, to come along.  Here's Daddy and Wade walking in!!

We get there, order pizza, and sit down.  There are big screens with a blue background, so you can stand in front of the screen and be on TV!  Here's Mandy, Conner, and Alaina on the big screen.

After eating, the fun begins.  Here's Wade and Alaina climbing up the playzone.

Ben and Chris playing skeeball with Henry and Conner.

Wade loves playing Operation at home, so you can imagine the look on his face when he saw this beauty- a larger than life sized version of Operation!!!  The only thing better could have been Candyland.  :)

You pay a token and you can "talk" to Chuck on the phone.

Henry loving every minute of it!

The end of the night, the ticket muncher eats the tickets, and gives you a receipt of how many tickets you won. It actually sounds like someone eating.

And here's when it happened....

The.Biggest.Meltdown.Of.All.Time.

I'm not kidding you, I was EMBARRASSED, and if you know me, I don't get embarrassed easily.  He actually screamed at the top of his lungs.  really, it was bad.  I don't want to ever go back.... 

And Wade begs to go back.  Any takers? 

because it won't be me!