Chuck E. Cheeseland

The anticipation has been growing for over a week now. We promised the kiddos that we would go to Chuck E. Cheese between conference sessions today. Five o'clock was the magic time. I must have been asked what time it was a million times today. The day just wasn't going fast enough for them.

When we first arrived, the place was so crowded that we had to snatch a dirty table. The dining room attendants were swamped. But the kids didn't care because lucky for them, it takes like 20 minutes for your pizza to be ready. That's 20 minutes of fun, fun, fun--if your tokens hold out that long. It seemed like Isaac's ran out the fastest. Thanks goes to my mom who bought a fundraiser coupon book that had a coupon for 60 free tokens. That helped A LOT!

Nothing exciting or unexpected really happened at Chuck E. Cheese. But Dad decided to treat the family to Baskin Robbins afterward. It was an unexpected, pleasant surprise. I used to go there as a kid, and my favorite flavor was German chocolate cake. I haven't had it in years and the three times I've ever been in Waco's Baskin Robbins, they've never had that flavor. It's always, "Oh, we had that back in August." or "We have that around Christmastime--come back then." But I never did. Until tonight, and let's just say some things are better left in your memories. It was good, but not as good as I remembered. I don't remember the nuts, and I'm not a big fan of nuts.

Overall, tonight has been good. There's always consequences to every decision and tonight's consequences include a huge caloric intake for me that will take major sacrifice for me to undo, and Isaac is bouncing off the walls. Ya, he's on a sugar high.