First Trip to Chucky Cheese

My feet and back were sore from standing for over 2 hours watching Maya ride this Teletubbies ride over and over and over again. But it was worth it because she had so much fun! We went to Chucky Cheese to celebrate a friend's birthday, but Maya had no interest in the eating pizza part of the party-it was all about the games. She got the hang of putting the tokens into the slots and pressing play fast. One funny thing is that they give the kids little plastic cups with their tokens in it. (This made me think of Las Vegas and the plastic cups you get when you are playing slots to hold your coins. Seeing all of these kids with their cups as they walked around, contemplating what ride or game to play next, made me thing we are training the next generation of gamblers here.) Anyway, Maya really wanted one of those cups, but she didn't have one. I didn't know that she wanted one at first, but at some point I figured it out and we found a discarded one for her. She just loved that little cup and wanted to carry around her own tokens, instead of having me carry them for her. It was funny when she rode the rides. She would allow me the honor of holding the little cup, but as soon as she was finished I had to give it back to her. And then there were the tickets. When we found some games that gave out tickets, well that was another highlight of the day. She didn't even know what they were for, but she wanted those tickets too. At then end we had 32 tickets. So she was able to trade them in for 2 packages of Chucky Cheese bath fizzes. They were a big hit as they turned her bath water purple and pink! Maya now talks about Chucky Cheese a lot. She did get to shake his hand after all.