Spring Break Day 2 - Chuck E. Cheese = Sensory OVERLOAD!

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Day 2 of Spring Break almost didn't get off the ground.

Princess has a temperature. It was only a little temperature, and she assured me that she was not sick enough to stay home from Chuck E. Cheese. (Although if it were a school day instead of Spring Break I am quite sure I would have had a different response....)

Since her temperature was only low grade (and because Chuck E. Cheese is most certainly germ infested with or without our help) we hopped in Otis the van at 9:15 and proceeded to Chuck's place.

The kids had a blast!

This is the only way I will do Chuck E. Cheese:

• Arrive as soon as we can in the morning (it opens at 9:00 so we were a half hour "late" arriving at 9:30),
  
• order pizza to be delivered at 11:00,
  
• play games until the pizza arrives,
  
• eat pizza,
  
• count our tickets,
  
• get our prizes and
  
• get the heck out of dodge before the place gets too crowded.

And it would have worked too if it weren't for those meddling kids (incompetent cashiers)! We were the very first people at the place. We ordered our pizza to be delivered at 11:00, as did everyone we came to Chuck's with. Their pizza arrived but ours didn't. (Try explaining that to 3 hungry kids who are watching their friends eat!).

At 11:05, I headed back to the counter to politely inquire about our pizza. They said they would check on it. About 3 minutes later, another worker came over and explained that it was not in yet but it would be out in about 5 minutes (yeah right!). I would have been more upset if he had not handed me two fist fulls of tokens to keep the young 'uns busy until the pizza came. The pizza finally did arrive at 11:30 (not quite the five minutes promised earlier) and the kids ate like champs! The Prince at 3 PIECES! Princess ate one and a half. The Knight ate 2 pieces. Wow! That is a lot of pizza eating for this crew. The last time the Prince ate 3 pieces of pizza we had left him and Princess with a neighbor to go buy Otis the Van - he was only 19 months old! (Another story...)

All in all it was a successful morning! The kids had fun and ate a good lunch. Plus I am off the hook for going to Chuck E. Cheese's for a long, long time!