Lucas meets Chuck E. . . .

I told Grampa it's time..."Time for what?" he says, "Time for our grandson to go to Chuck E. Cheese!"..."WHAT..are you sure? he's too little, he's tired, he can't sit on the rides yet"..."Oh be quiet, we are going!" I say..."Oh great" he says.... So we head out ...we get to the restaurant at about 6;15pm. The place is packed (I think it is always packed). It has been many, many years since we have had the Chuck E. Cheese "experience". I do remember something about needing to take large doses of Excedrin Migraine after our previous visits when the kids were little, but I was up to the challenge this time. So we placed our order. Did you know they now have a 2 beer maximum? that's a wise rule change I suppose, not too cool to be getting all liquored up and be kicked out by the Chuck E. police. Each parent and child are stamped and stickered as to not lose each other or become kidnapped, or go home with the wrong person. That's new since we were there last (I guess we didn't care about that back then or we watched our kids...hmmm..imagine that?). We find our seat and Lucas is totally entralled with the lights and sounds, especially all the kids running around, he is playing with his Chuck E. cup on the table chewing and banging it with all his might. Our pizza arrives...the quality of the pizza has definately not improved. Chuck E. stops by our table, he slowly approaches....so is Lucas going to let out a piercing scream??.....No he just looks at him then back at his cup again and continues to bang it on the table. Apparently not too impressed with the big mouse. Grampa can't wait any longer, he takes Lucas around the arcade..riding him on the merry-go-round, the little mini cars, then they played skeeball (or Grampa played, Lucas watched).

They even rode on a motorcycle together. Grampa was cracking up. So after he won about 85 tickets he goes to the counter to collect a prize. That hasn't changed much either, you can spend $10.00 in games and you win tickets for a 99cent prize. Grampa picked out Chuck E. Cheese playing cards, so Lucas can play poker with his Daddy. We head home about 7:30pm. Lucas and Grampa are worn out, Grama drives home and they nap in the back seat.

Looking forward to the next trip!