Back in the day, I remember Chuck E. Cheese being totally awesome! Video games, skeeball, tickets, & cheap novelty toys? Yes please! And pizza & birthday cake? Bring it! Now, as a parent, I dread thinking of even driving near it. The screaming children. Crappy pizza. Freaky animatronic rat? Well, recently one of Soph’s friends had a party there. Lynds & I rock-paper-scissors’d it out, and I drew the short straw (actually, I went willingly- nice guy that I am 🙂 They seemed to have undergone major changes, because I actually thought it went pretty well. The parents sprung for the best package available- which I guess can make a pretty big difference. The staff actually got involved w/ pumpin’ up the kids (and parents), served the cake, and the pizza……there was alot less games then I remember as a kid, but that didn’t seem to matter too much. And the pizza was actually decent.
OK, I’m not gonna willingly throw a party there- I’m not THAT crazy! But, if your kid does happen to get invited to a party there, it’s not actually that bad. Now, if they only had an espresso stand……