My husband and stepson took me out for a “spontaneous date”.  When hubby picked me up he confessed that because it was a family outing he let his son decide where we would go. Now there aren’t too many choices he would choose. On the way there, I guessed. Although not after I asked my stepson if it was Disneyland. Disneyworld? No. And after the funning – I guessed right. You guessed it, Chuck E. Cheese. I can never get enough of their cardboard pizza and way over priced games. Seriously, though you can never beat an evening of fun with the whole damn family.

For $40 you get a large pepperoni pizza, 4 drinks (we only needed 3) and 100 tokens.

I am a total sucker for the basketball games and the air hockey. I am really pretty good at both of these. The others I kind of suck at. And some I really don’t understand. What’s with the fishing game? How fun is it to push a button, see the magnet fall down and catch a fish then win a ticket? Or the ones that are broken and kids continually put in tokens try and see if it will work even when it didn’t when they put the token in two seconds ago. But we played them all. The fireman game was kind of weird. You point a hose at the screen and then put out the fire. Hmmm. I just don’t understand boy games. Like the zombie game where you run around and kill zombies, shooting off all their limbs.

While playing air hockey, my son actually performed a feet never seen before. He was able to score against himself for six whole points. Six points!! I didn’t even really get to play because he kept scoring against himself. I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to cry. He was laughing too until he realized the game only went to 7 points. I thought I was the only one who scored against themselves. Never say never.

My husband is really good at the games where you try to stop the light on a number and that number is how many tickets you win. He won 71 tickets. Wow. Truly amazing . . . for Chuck E. Cheese that is. LOL

I really thought that my stepson would run through all those tokens pretty fast, but in the end we just tried to use them up – we had so many.

I love the irony in paying 25cents for tokens that only gets you a penny’s worth of prizes. Sometimes I think we should go to Walmart and buy McDonald’s then walk around the store buying little crap gifts just like toys you win. But where’s the fun in that???

For about 220 tickets, we got plastic vampire teeth, some tops/spinners, three rings, some plastic stick bugs, and some other stuff I can’t remember.

And before we left, my husband bought two more packages of cotton candy. This after we all ate a bag during dinner. Uhg. Another conundrum. It is like eating hair. Really soft, sweet, melt in your mouth hair. My husband and stepson just love the stuff.

All in all though, I really had a great time. I had so much fun, I was pooped when we got back. We all just laid around and watched a movie – Die Harder with Bruce Willis.