The Boones: Chuck E Cheese

Before I get to tell you about Chuck E cheese, I want to tell you about what I did this morning. I am part of a coupon group and once a month we make food and bring it to the Ronald McDonald house. We are, also, beginning to help clean rooms and such. I made up a batch up homemade chili (enough for 30 people) and spent a little time cleaning. Today was a really touching moment. Each room is sponsored by a person, family, or company. One of the rooms we cleaned was sponsored by a family whose daughter died on the day of her Wedding. Her WEDDING! Her and her husband were MILES away from their honeymoon when she was killed by a drunk driver!!! It really makes you think. Now onto the reason for this blog...

Jeff has been really busy at work and there hasn't been much time for play or time in general to hang out as a family. We decided that today would be a good day to have a good family day and do something fun. Who doesn't want to go to Chuck E cheese as a kid?? I was really excited because I use to love to go as a child and knew Maddie would have a blast. I knew she would be too little for some games, but there would be plenty for her to play with. We got there and the line to get in was out the door! Oh boy! We finally got in and actually ended up taking someone's table. I guess someone sat another family, but the family went to get tokens and such. We were sat and the lady came back up with her kids. We got the situation packed, but this place was CRAZY!!!! Maddie couldn't wait to start playing games, but we had to eat first. Jeff took her to ride a few little rides in front of our table while I sat at our table and made sure no one took our table. Ha! She quickly ate a slice of pizza and was off!

This was a very eye opening experience. We had kids pushing Maddie out of the way to play games, kids trying to take our tickets while Maddie was STILL playing, a lot of the machines were actually broken, and -my favorite part - ADULTS playing and blocking games with kids waiting to play. I couldn't believe it! We were trying to let Maddie play skeeball. She always tries to play at another place we go to, so we thought we would really enjoy it. There were six lanes, two were broken, one only had one ball, and two ladies were having a competition on two lanes. Really ladies?! Anyway, Maddie had a lot of fun if you put all of that to the side. She was getting tired, so I cashed in her tickets (which wasn't a whole lot) and got her a few little prizes. It was a good time and quite the learning experience. Tomorrow we are going to go get some ice cream and let her pick out what she wants. I am pretty excited to get to spend some more time as a family and get out.