We finally decided to venture out into the world of game places for kids. The girls saw a commercial for Chuck E. Cheese's and were asking everyday for a week to go to this place before we caved in and accepted. Emily was a little nervous when she learned that lots of kids like to go to this place because she thought they would be screaming. She was pretty close in her assumption, but thankfully we decided to go early on a Friday and were luck enough to be one of the only people there. We ordered our pizza and got our tokens and then decided to start in the toddler section to acclimate them to their new exciting environment. Avery went straight for the rides and Emily, of course, decided to opt for the games. When they both learned they got tickets for playing games it enticed them to see who could get the most tickets. It was pretty funny to see how excited they were at the idea that they "won" every game they played. I tried to encourage Emily to try the rides but she refused to try any of them. She did love this one baby game, which was basically a telephone attached to a small booth, and when you placed your coin in the slot it would make the call to one of the characters and they would have a short two sentence conversation with you. Emily loved it! She repeated that particular game at least four times until we decided not to let her play anymore. It was, in my opinion, a waste of coins. Most of the time, both girls played all the games they chose to play, and then there were those times when dad wandered off only to come back with tons of tickets. He was a kid again when he played those games and was having just as much fun as his girls. When it was almost time to go, Emily finally decided to take a chance on a small toddler ride. Once she saw that it was calm and it wasn't going to throw her off she decided to get on a bigger ride. She enjoyed it so much that she rode the thing four more times. Avery has a blast and loved the action games the best especially the fighting games. Unlike the Chuck E. Cheese's I went to as a child, this new updated place didn't have a ball pit, thank God, and it didn't have those creepy characters dancing on stage. It did have one mechanical mouse, Chuck E. Cheese himself, who would dance every so often and blink. He was situated right by the restroom area so when I passed him with Avery in tow she was delighted and actually waved at the thing. On the other hand, when I took Emily to the restroom, she practically attached herself to me and said, "Mom, I want to go home!" I had to calm her down and tell her he didn't get off the platform. I was quickly made a liar when a employee came out of the back dressed in the mouse outfit and walked around the place getting people to follow him to get more tickets. Luckily we stayed clear of him and Emily was good enough to finish all her tokens before she decided it was time to go home. After being such well behaved children and I beaming with pride over my great parenting, we reached the prize counter where all hell broke loose and the devils came out of them. Not really, but they didn't understand that I couldn't get them that bake set for just 200 tickets or that princess jewelry set. We finally settled on some fun dip and a toy car, which was about the size of a strawberry. After all was done we all attested to having a great time and will go back for more fun.
